Global module confusion

[gibsonc]

Hi all

It seems so simple, but I cannot get it right. To add insult to injury I am no Java expert :/

I have a jar in server/xxx/lib on JBoss 5 and all is fine.

I now want to make this jar a module on JBoss 7.1.1 since I have 120 applications making use of this jar - packaging it in each web applications WEB-INF/lib is not a good idea if we ever want to make any modifications.

So I have a jar that has classes in za.co.company.ivr.stats

I then create a module.xml file with the following in /modules/za/co/company/ivr/stats/main along with the jar itself with the following content

<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.1" name="za.co.company.ivr.stats">
      <dependencies>
        <module name="javax.api" slot="main" export="true"/>
    </dependencies>
    <resources>
        <resource-root path="vVoice_2.3.53.jar"/>
    </resources>
</module>

In standalone.xml I define a global module

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:ee:1.0">
            <global-modules>
                <module name="za.co.company.ivr.stats" slot="main"/>
            </global-modules>
</subsystem>

Now, if I restart the app server, should these classes immediately available? I tried restarting the app server with -verbose:class and they are nowhere to be found.

Do I still need to add the Dependencies: in the applications' MANIFEST - although even if I do it is irrelevant, I get an error that the classes are not found when the web applications are deployed.

Is the jar that I have been given maybe malformed in some way that would work in 'normal' shared mode but not as a module?

Many Thanks!

[gibsonc]

OK, so after trial and horror I made progress - posting it here for reference:

Take the jar and using tattletale (http://www.jboss.org/tattletale) find all the dependencies.

Add these to your module.xml

Many classes from rt.jar, like in my case I needed javax.naming are exposed via javax.api so you need to add that too:

<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.1" name="za.co.company.ivr.stats">
    <dependencies>
        <module name="javax.servlet.api" slot="main" export="true"/>
        <module name="javax.servlet.jsp.api" slot="main" export="true"/>
        <module name="javax.api" slot="main" export="true"/>     
    </dependencies>
    <resources>
        <resource-root path="vVoice_2.3.53.jar"/>
    </resources>
</module>

I may not be a java expert but Im sure becoming a search one