how to access a module in JBoss 7 from a war app?

[23foxleung]

I have put a module (a jar file, say A) into JBoss 7's "modules/" folder correctly, and could execute it successfully using "java -jar jboss-modules.jar ...". Now I want to access A from my project, which would be deployed as a war.

My questions are:

1. how to compile my project without jar A in my project's /WEB-INF/lib? Because I want to access it as a module managed by JBoss, putting A in /WEB-INF/lib seems to defeat the purpose.

2. Other than declaring "Dependencies:... " in manifest.mf, what else needs to be done?

I've read the documents on https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS7/Class+Loading+in+AS7, but couldn't find the solution. It'd be great if I could be shown an example on how to do this.

Thanks.

[rhusar]

1. how to compile my project without jar A in my project's /WEB-INF/lib? Because I want to access it as a module managed by JBoss, putting A in /WEB-INF/lib seems to defeat the purpose.

For instance in Maven add that dependency with <scope>provided</scope>. Then it wont get included in the final war/jar.

2. Other than declaring "Dependencies:... " in manifest.mf, what else needs to be done?

If the module is there and is correct then thats all.

[mpashworth]

Hi,

I used the jboss-deployment-structure.xml to access the `com.sun.xml.bind` module from a web application, the syntax is as follows:

<jboss-deployment-structure>

  <deployment>

    <dependencies>

      <module name="com.sun.xml.bind"/>

    </dependencies>

  </deployment>

</jboss-deployment-structure>

For good measure, I also created a META-INF\MANIFEST.MF with the dependy of the module:

Manifest-Version: 1.0

Created-By: Apache Maven

Dependencies: com.sun.xml.bind

Regards,

Mark P Ashworth

http://mpashworth.wordpress.com

[lauradp]

Did you find a solution to you issue??

Lauta