Adding a Jar file in Classpath to a module

[rakeshsagar]

Hi all,

I have a jar file in the classpath and I want to include that jar file in a module in JBoss.

We do not want to copy the jar file in the module.

Is there any way to do this in JBoss7??

Thanks

Rakesh.

[jameslivingston]

Add a system dependency listing the packages in the <path> elements. See the sun.jdk module for an example.

[rakeshsagar]

Thanks James.

I think this works only the system jars provided by Java.

I tried with my custom jar file which is in classpath and added a dependency to the module but still I get ClassNotFoundException.

Any other suggestions that I can try.

Thanks

Rakesh

[gsinghal]

Or alternately is there a way to specify an absolute path to the jar file in module.xml, something like below:

<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.1" name="mymodule">

   <resources>

        <resource-root path="mymodule.jar"/>

        <resource-root path="/u/users/myid/myexternalmodule.jar"/>

    </resources>

</module>

I tried above but it simply appends the path to the directory that the "mymodule.jar" is in, so is there any way to put an absolute path?