[OPENEJB-308] META-INF/lib or APP-INF/lib for third-party jars in EARs

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 3.0-beta-1
• Component/s: deployment, ejb3 simplified
• Assignee: David Blevins
• Reporter: David Blevins
• Created: 14/Nov/06 12:37
• Updated: 27/Sep/07 04:28
• Resolved: 14/Nov/06 12:38

Description

Automatically load all libs found in the META-INF/lib/ or APP-INF/lib directory of an EAR file.

Take the following example where JUnit would be added to the classpath of the EAR without having to be in the Class-Path entry of the MANIFEST.MF

$ jar tvf itests/openejb-itests-app/target/openejb-itests-app-3.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT.ear
0 Tue Nov 14 04:17:16 PST 2006 META-INF/
481 Tue Nov 14 04:17:14 PST 2006 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
0 Tue Nov 14 04:17:16 PST 2006 META-INF/lib/
560 Tue Nov 14 04:17:16 PST 2006 META-INF/application.xml
121070 Tue Nov 14 04:17:16 PST 2006 META-INF/lib/junit-3.8.1.jar
103130 Tue Nov 14 04:17:16 PST 2006 openejb-itests-beans-3.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT.jar
202682 Tue Nov 14 04:17:16 PST 2006 openejb-itests-client-3.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT.jar