On 21/05/2010, at 10:14 PM, Nicola Musatti wrote: > Are you sure about this? I'm asking because this is not the behaviour I'm > seeing for a WAR deployed to Websphere 7.0.0.7. In order for the containing > EAR's jar's to be visible from the WAR I have to specify them explicitly in > the WAR's manifest.
From "JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) Specification, v5" EE.8.2.1 Bundled Libraries 1. ... 2. A .ear file may contain a directory that contains libraries packaged in JAR files. The library-directory element of the.earfile’s deployment descriptor contains the name of this directory. If a library-directory element isn’t specified, or if the .ear file does not contain a deployment descriptor, the directory named lib is used. An empty library-directory element may be used to specify that there is no library directory. All files in this directory (but not subdirectories) with a .jar extension must be made available to all components packaged in the EAR file, including application clients. These libraries may reference other libraries, either bundled with the application or installed separately, using any of the techniques described herein. 3. A web application may include libraries in the WEB-INF/lib directory. See the Servlet specification for details. These libraries may reference other libraries, either bundled with the application or installed separately, using any of the techniques described herein. The usual reason for this not working is using an old (J2EE 1.3 or 1.4) DTD/schema in the application.xml file. Cheers, Steve C --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org