Re: [JBoss-user] Manifest Classpath enties for wars within ears

[Ryan H. <rh...@is...>]

I am using JBoss 3.0.6 with Tomcat and I put classpath entries in the 
manifest file for each of my wars in my ear.  These entries denote jars 
inside the ear.  Everything is working fine for me.

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Ryan Hoegg
ISIS Networks
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Dan Durkin wrote:

>I was hoping someone could clear this up.
>
>I've seen in the forums and on the list people mention that you can
>specify classpath dependencies of ejb jars and wars within ear archives
>by putting Class-path entries in the MANIFEST.MF file of the war or ear.
>
>The ejb jar works fine and finds several other library jars packaged in
>the ear.
>
>The war however doesn't seem to pick up any Class-Path references from
>the manifest.
>
>I looked in the jmx-console for the classpath of the webcontext and it
>only contained references to the directory where jetty upacked the war.
>
>This isn't a huge deal as you can put any needed jars in the WEB-INF/lib
>directory and they're picked up find but I just thought that manifest
>entries were ok for wars and that this allowed you to deploy a single
>copy of a library jar and access it from ejbs and servlets.
>
>I'm using 3.2.0RC4( standard with jetty )
>
>Dan
>