How can I specify the jars that contain session beans?

[michallefler]

I have a large amount of jar files inside my .ear,
most of them doesn't contain any session beans at all
(the application's classpath reffers to these jars).
Whenever I deploy my application, JBoss scans all my jars for EJBs,
and the deployment process takes a very long time.
Is there a way in which I can explicitly specify the jars that contain EJBs
and make JBoss scan these jars only?
Thanks, Michal.

[ronsmitsnl]

you can in the application.xml file, mark the jar files in several ways:
jar file for files containing ejb's
jar filefor files not containing ejb's

[ronsmitsnl]

"ronsmitsnl" wrote:
you can in the application.xml file, mark the jar files in several ways:
<ejb>jar file</ejb> for files containing ejb's
<java>jar file</java>for files not containing ejb's

it eats the less then and greater then tags :(

<ejb>ejb jar files</ejb>
<java>jar file</java>

There, that's better

[michallefler]

Thanks.
Im already using the "ejb" tag inside my "application.xml", but I see that JBoss scans not only the jar that is mentioned inside this tag, but also all the jars that are written inside this jar's classpath (I use the "Class-Path:" option in the jar's MANIFEST.MF).
How can I prevent this from happening?
I don't want them all to be scanned, but only a several jars.

[wolfc]

There is a JBoss specific option for deploying only .ejb3 extensions.
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-877
Search for the 'DeployEjb3ExtensionOnly' attribute in the jboss-service.xml of the EJB3 deployer.

[ebross]

If your are deploying *.jar files that already exist in the JBoss deploy lib (default\lib or all\lib), remove them from your ear file. Only deploy your *.ear or *.jar files to JBoss.

Alternatively, you might want to copy third-party jar files to the JBoss deploy\lib and then remove them from yourear file.