Yes it is Orion specific (as is this list) , I never claimed otherwise.
I just point it out as a nice feature that makes deploying a breeze.
As an aside, I actually believe that the ability to describe libraries should be
a part of the spec. It would eliminate a lot of confusion.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John N. Alegre
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 8:41 PM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: RE: Classpath problems
>
>
> Russ,
>
> Comment here is that this is an Orion specific solution. If you want a
> cross server deployable app, as pointed out in the previous post, you must
> duplicate the classes in the EAR file.
>
> John N Alegre
> Andante Systems
>
> On 30-Nov-00 Russ White wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > I too had this problem, and solved it by creating a library
> directory which I
> > now have library tags in my orion-applcation.xml files which point
> to a class
> > repository (could just as easily be a jar file).
> >
> > like this:
> > in orion-application.xml
> > (or config/application.xml if you want these classes to be available to all
> > apps)
> > <library path="../../dev/java/classes"/>
> >
> > then I do not have any jar files or classes at all in my web-inf/class
> > web-inf/lib directories.
> >
> > nor do I have any classes or jars in my ejb deployment directory.
> For my EJBs
> > all I need is a directory for the beans and a META-INF directory under that.
> > I
> > put the ejb-jar.xml in that directory and that is all. Then the EJBs and the
> > servlets share the some library.
> >
> > Really slick.
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexander
> >> Sparkowsky
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 12:45 PM
> >> To: Orion-Interest
> >> Subject: Classpath problems
> >>
> >>
> >> I have some problems dealing with the classpathes in orion.
> >>
> >> I have a web module and some ejb module. Some classes are used by the
> >> web and ejb modules. First I added these classes only to one of the
> >> ejb modules and got a NoClassDefFoundError in the servlet. I then
> >> added the class to the web module. I tried both in a .jar file in
> >> WEB-INF/lib or as separatefile with no success. Other classes could
> >> be loaded from both locations without anyproblems!.
> >> When finally copying all classes to orion/lib my app ran. But this is
> >> not the way I like to have it.
> >>
> >> Can somebody help?
> >>
> >> Alex
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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