Hello. I have a handful of webapps which use a JAR that I created. This JAR depends on a handful of other JARs, etc etc. Essentially I want my webapps to be able to use this JAR - without putting the JAR into the individual webapps.
I originally put my JAR and other related JARs into the shared/lib/ directory - but my webapps could still not see my JAR. I moved my JAR into common/lib/, and this improved things slightly - but it couldn't see some of its dependencies, so I moved them too. Still getting some visibility errors though. Finally, I moved my JAR (but not its dependencies) into the lib/ directory of an individual webapp, and everything works perfectly. I've done some research and I read that the shared/lib/ directory is visible to the webapps, but not the container. Additionally, the common/lib/ directory is visible to webapps AND the container. I have several questions. First, is the preceding paragraph (visibility of those directories) correct, within the context of Jahia? Second, my error seems very clearly to be a visibility issue. My current guess is that there is something in my shared/lib/ directory that needs to be in my common/lib directory. Does this sound correct? (Obviously this is something I can test - and I am testing, but moving jars is a slow process, involving a restart, etc). Finally, generally speaking, what is the common practice for the placement of these dependencies? Thanks for your time. Chris
