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Donald Woods reassigned GERONIMO-4251: -------------------------------------- Assignee: Ivan > Class-Path entry in WAR manifest didn't work if entry is a directory > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: GERONIMO-4251 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-4251 > Project: Geronimo > Issue Type: Bug > Security Level: public(Regular issues) > Affects Versions: 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.2 > Environment: Geronimo 2.1.2 on Windows XP > Reporter: Frank Meilinger > Assignee: Ivan > Fix For: 2.1.4, 2.2 > > > Hi, > it's not possible to define an Class-Path element in the WARs manifest, if > it's a directory. I try to access jar files packed in the EARs lib/ > directory from within a WAR module. > e.g. this will work: > Class-Path: a.jar b.jar > but this doesn't work: > Class-Path: lib/ > If a directory is specifyed, I receive the following error: > 15:20:13,170 ERROR [DirectoryHotDeployer] Unable to deploy: Manifest class > path > entries must end with the .jar extension (J2EE 1.4 Section 8.2): module=../ > org.apache.geronimo.common.DeploymentException: Manifest class path entries > must > end with the .jar extension (J2EE 1.4 Section 8.2): module=../ > at > org.apache.geronimo.deployment.DeploymentContext.addManifestClassPath > (DeploymentContext.java:419) > ... > I think this is definitely an error because the JEE5 specification section > 8.2.1 explicitely allows directories in manifest Class-Path entries. > See discussion: > http://www.nabble.com/EAR-bundle-dir-classpath-issue-tt18982334s134.html -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.