I have a packaging problem that I'm curious how people get around.

My code consist of
1) EJB beans and interfaces
2) servlet layer JavaBeans
3) external libraries

Everything needs to be packaged into an EAR.

2) references classes in 1), including the bean classes. And that's the
problem: I want to package the servlet layer stuff in /WEB-INF/classes
in my WAR file, and my EJB's in an EJB-JAR file, but that just doesn't
work, since then 2) then cannot see 1). If I package classes in 1) in a
jar and reference it from the EAR's manifest, then deployment of EJB's
fail (using Orion at least) since the classes cannot be found in the
EJB-JAR (which now only contains the DD).

One option would be to use the "alt-dd" in the module description in the
EAR DD, and keep all classes in one jar, but this whole scheme seems broken.

And it seems it is the classloading logic used that messes things up,
i.e. Java2 classloading. If I did things the way I *really* want it to
work, i.e. keep servlet stuff in /WEB-INF/classes (or /WEB-INF/lib) and
EJB code in an EJB-JAR, then the classloading logic would have to be
changed to a mode that allow loading of classes that are on a "parallel"
level and not necessarily "above" in the classloader hierarchy (i.e. a
la JBoss 3.0).

Have others run into this problem? How did you solve it? Is it solvable..?

/Rickard

-- Rickard �berg

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