Spring module and war deployed separatly

[djeanprost]

Hello,

My question may be considered as off-topic, but let me expose my problem. I would like folks here to share their point of view on my issue.

I have a spring module which holds my business implementation. This business implementation is shared between 2 webapps. So what I want to do is to deploy my spring module using spring deployer (what a great feature by the way), and use these beans in my webapps. Both of them are deployed in the deploy dir of jboss.
As I also need the beans classes in my webapp, I also need them in the WEB-INF/lib. The classloading problem is approaching, isn't it ?

ApplicationContext appContext = WebApplicationContextUtils
 .getWebApplicationContext(servletContext);
 Object o = appContext.getBean("service.global.idFonctionnel");
 ServiceIdFonctionnel serviceIdFonctionnel = (ServiceIdFonctionnel)o;

This code leads me to a ClassCastException. I precise that the bean do implements the ServiceIdFonctionnel interface.

My questions :
Is spring deployer aimed at this kind of deployment scenario ?
If so, how should I do to avoid this ClassCastException ? Do I have to play with classloading options of my jboss-web.xml ?
If not, this means to me that I can't share spring modules between 2 webapp ?

Thank you for your testimonials and answers.

Best regards,

Dom

[alesj]

JBoss classloading model is flat, this means that all apps in deploy dir can eventually 'see' each other.

I think you don't need to put the same classes that are used in your common Spring module into each separate app (you just need them when compiling). Try w/o.
But be sure Spring common module is deployed before the two other web apps.

[djeanprost]

Thank you for this answer. I'll try it, and give you feedback as soon as possible

[djeanprost]

It worked.
Thx