persistence.xml : jar-file tag doesn't work with relative ur

[olvin]

Hello,

I'm using Jboss 4.2.1 GA and here is the structure of my .ear :

xxx.ear dir (not a "packaged .ear" but a directory to be able to modify the persistence.xml very easily) which contains :
one session.jar packaged file with session beans
one entity.jar packaged file with entity beans
one persistence.jar dir wich contains META-INF with persistence.xml

So, when I'm using the tag to identify the entity classes, I have no problem, but I'm using the <jar-file> tag, I have very very strange results... :

- with <jar-file>../entity.jar</jar-file> it searches the entity.jar in the "persistence.jar" dir...
- with <jar-file>../../entity.jar</jar-file> the error message tells me : error trying to scan <jar-file>: file: "path-to-persistence.jar/ntity.jar" without the "e" of "entity.jar"
- with <jar-file>../../../entity.jar</jar-file> the error message tells me : error trying to scan <jar-file>: file: "path-to-persistence.jar/tity.jar" without the "en" of "entity.jar"

So, how can i jump to the "path-to-ear dir" (the parent of the "path-to-persistence.jar") with a relative path ???

Is it a bug in hibernate or jboss ?

Thanks,

Olivier

[olvin]

Nobody else has the problem ?

Thanks,

Olivier

[olvin]

Somebody could reply to me ?

Thanks,

Olivier

[jpaumard]

I came across the same issue, it seems to be an old bug, since a Jira has been openned on it 2 years ago.

I could work around the problem by putting an absolute file name in the persistence.xml <jar-file> subelement. Just a temporary solution of course.

José

[olvin]

I read the source of the interpretation of the <jar-file> tag and I found a tip which works with JBoss 4.2.1 :

to put a relative path, put "../" only in the beginning of the path and next put "..\" as many as you need, so for me, it is :

<jar-file>../..\entities.jar</jar-file>

But I think that it will not work anymore with JBoss 5.0 but no problem with that, when it will be available, we will change the persistence.xml only for JBoss 5.0 and normally <jar-file>../../entities.jar</jar-file> will work with JBoss 5.0.

Olv

[llsilva.carlos]

Hello, I am with the same problem in JBOSS 5. Just worked putting the the path absolute (C:JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy)

Thanks

is or bug?