> I have an application which consists on several enterprise beans. All
> the beans access several helper class (Data access objects,
> etc). I need
> to now what is
> the best way of deploying the application in the Orion server.
>
> My first attempts at this were
>
> 1. Compile the ejbs into ejb jars
> 2. Compile the web components in war files.
> 3. Compile the helper class into jar files.
> 4. Create the Ear file consisting of the ejb-jar and war file.
>
You should include a 'Classpath:' entry in the manifest of your ejb.jar
pointing to the jar with the helper classes. As far as I know, this conforms
to the specs and is supported by orion, but the majority of app-servers do
not support it.
> Now when I run the server I need to export the cleasspath
> containing my
> helper classes
> (the jar file refered in 3). But when I invoke orion
> server using java -jar orion.jar , it overrides my system
> classpath with
> the classpath in the manifest. So, is this not a recommonded way to
> deploy the
> application. If not, it would be of immense help , if someone can
> provide advice/pointers.
>
> regards,
> abhilash
>
