2 Replies Latest reply on Feb 23, 2009 6:49 AM by horstl

Migration of EJB3 to JBoss5 from JBoss4.2.2

kkoster Feb 20, 2009 8:30 AM

I am moving a number of EJB3 beans from JBoss 4.2.2 to JBoss 5.0.0. After making the annotation alterations (everything is being handled by annotation, no xml deployment descriptors), I repackaged everything in the same manner that I did under 4.2.2.

The first thing that struck me was that it looks like the .ejb3 file extension is no longer recognized by the deployers. I altered the extension to .jar and re-deployed.

I am now getting class not found errors from the deployment. My packaging contains jars of my core classes nested within the jar and a manifest referring to the jars

e.g. (pseudo package)

ejb3.jar
META-INF
 MANIFEST.MF (w/Class-Path referring to core jars)
 ejb.classes
 lib
 core.jars

Under 4.2.2 this deployed without an issue. However, it looks like 5.0.0 no longer recognizes the Class-Path or does not unbundle the jar file in the same fashion as 4.2.2.

Is this the case? If it is, is there a workaround for this packaging scenario?

Thanks,
Karl

1. Re: Migration of EJB3 to JBoss5 from JBoss4.2.2

jaikiran Feb 20, 2009 11:13 PM (in response to kkoster)

So you have jars within a jar? Why not change ejb3.jar to ejb3.ear and deploy it? That way any jars under the .ear/lib will be by default available in classpath.
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2. Re: Migration of EJB3 to JBoss5 from JBoss4.2.2

horstl Feb 23, 2009 6:49 AM (in response to kkoster)
hi kkoster,

try to add the dependent libs in top level of ear, not inside of the ejb jar,
see also the j2ee 5 spec EE 8.2 Library Support

EE.8.2.6Example

app1.ear: META-INF/application.xml ejb1.jarClass-Path: util.jar ejb2.jarClass-Path: util.jar util.jar

then it schould work :-)

what you can also try is to add the relavtive path to it lib/core.jar's
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