EJB client app deployment error

[Alan Smith]

Hi,

I am trying to deploy a really simple EJB app-client jar to glassfish but keep seeing the following error in regard to my jar file:

The following extensions or libraries are referenced from the manifest of C:\Users\asmith\AppData\Local\Temp\Client-18654884305939595801.0.jar but were not found where indicated: lib\RemoteInterfaces-1.0.jar lib\javaee-api-7.0.jar ; ignoring and continuing

My jar is set up as follows:

Client-1.0.jar ->
->META-INF
MANIFEST.MF
application-client.xml
sun-application-client.xml
->com.alan.client
Main.class
->lib
RemoteInterfaces-1.0.jar
javaee-api-7.0.jar

My MANIFEST.MF contains:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Archiver-Version: Plexus Archiver
Created-By: Apache Maven
Built-By: asmith
Build-Jdk: 1.8.0_25
Main-Class: com.alan.client.Main
Class-Path: lib/RemoteInterfaces-1.0.jar lib/javaee-api-7.0.jar

What is the issue? Any help appreciated.

edit: I've tried to indent the jar contents correctly but not sure how to do it! Hopefully you can understand it's content layout.

[Rob Spoor]

You can't load classes from JAR files within another JAR files, unless you use a custom class loader. With that manifest, the JVM is looking for these JAR files in a folder called lib that is in the same folder as the main JAR file. It's not looking in a lib folder inside the main JAR file.

[Alan Smith]

Rob Spoor wrote:With that manifest, the JVM is looking for these JAR files in a folder called lib that is in the same folder as the main JAR file. It's not looking in a lib folder inside the main JAR file.

I did not know this! I guess I'm confusing jar, war and ear packaging! I believe you can do this in the latter two. I'll try that out. Thanks for the help.

[Alan Smith]

Still not working I have updated the manifest to point to a jar outside the jarfile but glassfish still isn't picking it up when I deploy the jar. I have the jar in every lib directory I can find in glassfish as well! Dunno what is going on at this stage.

Manifest:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Archiver-Version: Plexus Archiver
Created-By: Apache Maven
Built-By: alan
Build-Jdk: 1.7.0_45
Main-Class: com.alan.client.Main
Class-Path: /home/alan/jars/RemoteInterfaces-1.0.jar <- this contains a remote interface called SessionBeanRemote

Glassfish error on deployment:
SEVERE: Class [ Lcom/alan/SessionBeanRemote; ] not found. Error while loading [ class com.alan.client.Main]

[Rob Spoor]

Alan Smith wrote:

Rob Spoor wrote:With that manifest, the JVM is looking for these JAR files in a folder called lib that is in the same folder as the main JAR file. It's not looking in a lib folder inside the main JAR file.

I did not know this! I guess I'm confusing jar, war and ear packaging! I believe you can do this in the latter two.

WAR files indeed support nested JAR files in the WEB-INF/lib folder, and EAR files in the lib folder. JAR files do not.

As for this issue, I'm afraid I haven't worked with either Glassfish or app-client JARs, so I won't be able to help you out any further.

[Frits Walraven]

Hi Allan,

Did you read this Glassfish EJB FAQ?

Regards,
Frits

[Alan Smith]

Frits Walraven wrote:Hi Allan,

Did you read this Glassfish EJB FAQ?

Regards,
Frits

Hi Frits, no I have not! Thanks. I'll check this out.

Regards,
Alan