Hi all,

after writing my own deployment sorter (derived from org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentSorter) named:
test.deploy.MyDeploymentSorter
I put it in the JAR file my-deploy.jar and copied it into my servers lib directory.

During reboot of JBoss I got:

16:06:45,934 INFO [MainDeployer] Starting deployment of package: file:/usr/jboss-3.0.2/server/default/lib/my-deploy.jar
16:06:46,000 INFO [MainDeployer] Deployed package: file:/usr/jboss-3.0.2/server/default/lib/my-deploy.jar

therefore I know that this JAR file is deployed.

The content of the JAR file is:
[225] jar tf /usr/jboss-3.0.2/server/default/lib/my-deploy.jar
META-INF/
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
test/
test/deploy/
test/deploy/MyDeploymentSorter.class

therefore I know that the class file is really contained.

But a few lines later comes the following output:

16:06:54,860 WARN [URLDeploymentScanner] Unable to create URLComparator.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: test.deploy.MyDeploymentSorter
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:198)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:186)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:299)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:255)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:315)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:140)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.setURLComparator(URLDeploymentScanner.java:103)
...

Why is the class not found ?
Am I missing something ? What ?

Thanx in advance
Hounce