How do I make RAR classes visible to separate EAR modules? JBoss 7.1.1.Final, IronJacamar 1.0.16.Final, JDK 6

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I developed a new resource adapter. I'm currently using the following library versions:

  <version.org.jboss.ironjacamar>1.0.16.Final</version.org.jboss.ironjacamar>

  <version.org.jboss.as>7.1.1.Final</version.org.jboss.as>

  <version.jdk>1.6</version.jdk>

The classes that make up the resource adapter (managed connection factory, admin object interfaces) are separated out in 3 jar files (*-api.jar, *-spi.jar, *-specific-spi.jar). Inside that .rar, I also included all the jar files my adapter depends on.

     The structure of the resource adapter is as follows (class structure on the left panel, jboss-deployement-structure.xml on the right panel):

              

I was seemingly able to deploy my resource adapter by following the steps listed on https://community.jboss.org/thread/204895 and https://community.jboss.org/message/782656#782656

I then created a sample Ear file to make sure I could access my resource adapter from separate modules (ear, jar). The structure of my sample ear is as follows (class structure on the left panel, jboss-deployement-structure.xml on the right panel):

The issue I'm facing shows up when I try to deploy this sample ear. It seems that the classes inside the RAR are not visible from the classes on the EAR file.

I thought I could solve this issue  on my own by creating one jboss-deployment-structure.xml for the RAR and EAR modules as described here:  https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS71/Class+Loading+in+AS7.

But all my attempts to make the RAR classes visible to a separate EAR have failed so far.

Attached you'll find the jboss-deployment-structure.xml included inside the RAR file as well as the jboss-deployment-structure.xml included inside the EAR file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Omar Vega.

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After a careful reading https://community.jboss.org/message/626315#626315 and https://community.jboss.org/thread/219118 and https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS71/Class+Loading+in+AS7 I was able to fix the issue above by modifying the jboss-deployment-structure.xml on the EAR file as well as the jboss-deployment-structure.xml on the RAR.

The contents of the jboss-deployment-structure.xml file on the RAR (sevensys-cloud-adapter-aws.rar):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<jboss-deployment-structure>

          <deployment>

                    <exports>

                              <include path="mx/sevensys/cloud/api**" />

                              <include path="org/jclouds**" />

                    </exports>

                    <dependencies>

                              <module name="javax.inject.api"/>

                              <module name="javax.ws.rs.api"/>

                              <module name="javax.annotation.api"/>

                    </dependencies>

          </deployment>

</jboss-deployment-structure>

The contents of the jboss-deployment-structure.xml file on the EAR:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<jboss-deployment-structure>

  <ear-subdeployments-isolated>false</ear-subdeployments-isolated>

  <sub-deployment name="sample-ear-ejb.jar">

  <dependencies>

  <module name="deployment.sevensys-cloud-adapter-aws.rar"/>

  </dependencies>

  </sub-deployment>

</jboss-deployment-structure>