Classloading Questions

[milestone]

What is the recommended way to package 3rd party libraries, which have to be used inside the bean classes, and the Web Application?

The beans are packaged inside a jar archive and the webapp inside a war archive. Bothe are then packaged together inside in an ear archive.

For the webapp i have put everything in the WEB-INF/lib archive. For the beans I have put everything in JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib this seems to be wrong because I cannot use the classes which are put into some transfer event by the webapp.

So my question is, how is the recommended way to package 3rd party libraries for my beans?

[norman.richards]

The clearest (but not necessarily simplest) way to do this in JBoss is to put them at the root of the EAR file. You'll have to add references to them using the module/java hack that you see in application.xml.

[milestone]

Hi Norman, that did the trick

[norman.richards]

Great. Personally, I don't like doing things the way I said, but it does work reliably. The "better" ways are really just a pain too. Personally I wish we could either get something like Weblogic's APP-INF/lib directory or automatic scanning of an EAR file's contents into the spec. (the former would probably be less disruptive)