I just mentioned what a BEA consultant explicitly pointed
out to me. I din't have to use the <support> tag, so I'm
afraid I won't be able help you there.
If you would use a library, e.g. xalan-j, in you bean, would
you put it in you bean class as well? What I'm trying to say
is, why not just distribute a jar file with your beans?
Niels
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Sheehan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 3:10 PM
>
> > Why would you want to include the utility classes in your jar.
> > That would mean that if you have 100 beans in your jar these
> > utility classes would be in every bean that uses them.
> >
> > We have always used the principle to never put any other class
> > in the ejb-jar other than the Bean classes. (Home-, Remote-,
> > PK-,BeanClass). If your server has the utility classes in the
> > startup classpath they will be found.
>
> does this mean that by the time the bean gets loaded, the
> utility classes
> will already have been loaded? (this would be good).
>
> As far as I know the utility classes were being put in the jar for 2
> reasons:
>
> 1) If all classes needed to run the EJB are in the jar, then these
> classes will be loaded by the class loader when the bean is
> first loaded.
> This can be good for performance
>
> 2) keeping all the classes in the jar cuts makes sure the
> EJB will run
> as is - it does not rely on the class path to be set
> correctly (something
> that the bean itself has no control over).
>
> Can you give me any pointers on how to use the <support> element?
>
> thanks,
>
> Brian
>
