Referring shared Java EE library for EAR application in weblogic

[Chaitanya Rach]

I have created a shared library with some jar files in weblogic server, now I have an EAR application and I want to use the class files from shared library in my web applications present in EAR application. So I have created weblogic-application.xml file inside my ear-app/META-INF/ directory and gave reference to shared library using below tags:

<library-ref>
    <library-name>ebs_endeca_artifacts</library-name>
</library-ref>

But when I am trying to access the class files in my application, I am getting exception java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

Also it is required for me to refer to the shared library at ear level instead of declaring in weblogic.xml file of individual war files.

If I directly place the same jar files in my ear-app/APP-INF/lib directory instead of using shared library then my application is working fine without any issues.

Please help me how can I use the shared library in my ear application. I am using weblogic server 10.3.6

My shared library structure will be like this:

shared-web-app/WEB-INF/web.xml
shared-web-app/WEB-INF/lib/*.jar