Gilles Scokart wrote:
I have project with ears containing wars containing jars. I would like to
have some jars placed in the ears (in a lib directory), and some jars
contained in the wars.
Idealy, I want the locate the knowledge of which jar should be in the wars
and which one should be in the ear at a single place.
The dependencies between the jars (and between war and jar, and between ear
and wars) are managed with ivy.
Idealy, I don't want to put any knowledge of wars/ears into the ivy file of
the jars.
Idealy, I also would like to limit the list of jar dependencies into my wars
ivy.xml. I preffer to rely on ivy to provide me the full list of transitive
dependencies of a few top level jars.
Did anyone already tried to do something like that?
For EAR work I pulled all JARs out of the WAR; moved it in to EAR. Which
for JBoss 4.x means I cannot use the lib/ dir (not implemented), and
instead have an application.xml with all artifacts. I avoided adding
classpath manifests to those JARs, so they are visible to all WAR files
in the EAR.
to keep application.xml maintenance down, I extract the artifacts
without any version info.
-steve
