The articles were written before the final version of J2EE 1.3 was completed. The final version of the spec now mandates that Manifest Class-Path: capability be for EJB JARs and WARs. I liken the WEB-INF\lib directory to be a place to store all libraries that should only be loaded by the web app classloader while the manifest Class-Path: libraries are loaded by the "EAR" classloader at a global level.
And, for posterity, the articles came first and the chapter came second ;-) Tyler Jewell Director, Technical Evangelism 978-884-5355 BEA eWorld 2002, THE 7th ANNUAL BEA CONFERENCE San Diego Convention Center San Diego, California February 24 - 27, 2002 www.bea.com/events/eworld/2002/ <http://www.bea.com/events/eworld/2002/> -----Original Message----- From: A mailing list for Enterprise JavaBeans development [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fred Loney Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Class-Path references in WAR archive manifest Perhaps more germane to the question is the follow-up article at http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/07/25/ejb.html which addresses class sharing among wars in an ear. Both articles are drawn from the "Professional Java Server Programming J2EE 1.3 Edition" chapter reproduced at http://www.theserverside.com/resources/articles/J2EE-Deployment/chapter. html. The upshot is that if the app server is J2EE 1.3 compliant then a common support jar declared as a dependency in an EJB module Manifest classpath entry is available to all web apps in the ear. Nothing is said about war Manifest classpath entries. Fred Loney Spirited Software, Inc. www.spiritedsw.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 8:50 AM Subject: Re: Class-Path references in WAR archive manifest > 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". > =========================================================================== 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". =========================================================================== 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".
