Nested jars not appearing on classpath

[dbuttery]

Hi all,

    Looking to see if anyone has any insight into this issue ...

    I am deploying a ESB that contains a jar for common classes.  The common jar itself contains some additional third-party jars.

    The issue is that the ESB actions cannot instantiate classes that reside in the nested third-party jars.

    Is this expected?  Is there a way to have the third-party jars made available on the classpath?

Thanks,

-Dennis

[tcunning]

I think that's the behavior you should expect.

Options :

- combine the JARs into an aggregated JAR that contains the classes of the common classes + the third party JARs

- move the third party JARs out of your common class JAR and into your .esb archive or your server/default/lib directory

I'm sure there are more options to, but I wouldn't expect what you are suggesting to work.

[dbuttery]

Tom, thanks for the response.

I had already moved the third party JARs into my ESB and got it to work that way.  I was hoping to get the nested format to work though ...