Hi, Here is a good article about the subject
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/06/26/ejb.html It states that Application Servers do not have to support classpaths in the manifest file for WAR or RAR files. However I recently found an article in the BEA documentation that says it does support it for WAR files, David --- "J. Matthew Pryor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lets say I have an .ear wherein I want to package 3 > webapps > > All 3 webapp rely on the same jar file > > I know this works > > app/ > webapp1/ > META-INF/lib/needed.jar > index.jsp > webapp2/ > META-INF/lib/needed.jar > index.jsp > webapp3/ > META-INF/lib/needed.jar > index.jsp > > My 'diagram' might be a bit confusing, since the > WARs in the EAR are > archives, but I have shown them 'expanded', I hope > it is clear enough. > > I was hoping that I could do this : > > app/ > needed.jar > webapp1/ > META-INF/MANIFEST.MF > index.jsp > webapp2/ > META-INF/MANIFEST.MF > index.jsp > webapp3/ > META-INF/MANIFEST.MF > index.jsp > > Where MANIFEST.MF would look like > > Manifest-Version: 1.0 > Created-By: Ant 1.4 > Class-Path: needed.jar > > It is not clear to me from reading the J2EE 1.3 spec > that manifest > Class-Path entries in WARs are supported > > Perhaps I have to include a minimal jar in each > meta-inf/lib that would that > have its own manifest that would reference > needed.jar, something like > > Manifest-Version: 1.0 > Created-By: Ant 1.4 > Class-Path: ...... eeded.jar > > > Anyone care to comment/clarify ? > > Thanks, > Matthew > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and include in the body > of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general > help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the > message "help". > ===== David J. Jones, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Virgin Mobile USA, 8th Floor, 22 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, Work: 415 932 5470. USA. Fax: 415 358 4999. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
