Migrating from AS5 to AS7 results in ClassNotFoundException

[strunker]

Hello,

I'm trying to migrate our application from AS5 to AS7, but I don't get it work. My ear file looks like this:

  application.ear

  |

  |--- ejb.jar

  |

  |--- web.war

  |

  |--- jdom.jar

  |

  |--- xml-apis.jar

My ejb.jar uses jdom to parse some config files. So I defined in the MANIFEST.MF of ejb.jar the following classpath:

     Class-Path: jdom.jar xml-apis.jar

But when I start my application, JDom is found, but not the class SAXException which is part of xml-apis.jar.

Here's the error message I got:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.xml.sax.SAXException from [Module "deployment.application.ear.jdom.jar:main" from Service Module Loader]

So it seems that jdom.jar has no dependecies defined to xml-apis.jar. If I update the MANIFEST.MF of jdom.jar and add a class-path-entry for xml-apis.jar it works. But it makes absolutely no sense to me. Why do I have to alter external jar files to work with JBoss? Isn't there a way to setup JBoss properly?

Best regards

Karsten

[jaikiran]

You can just move those 2 jars to .ear/lib folder. That way they both will be available in the classpath of the application.

[strunker]

You are right. I though I tried this before. But I think I added the jar twice - one to the root folder an one jar to lib/. If I add the jar only to the lib folder and remove the Class-Path from MANIFEST it works.

Thank you!