class loading problem in jboss

[Premil Jacob]

I have a webapplication with the libraries required for the webapplication as jar files in subdirectories withing the WEB-INF/lib directory.

So for example the jar files would be in the format WEB-INF/lib/sub/one.jar

But when I loadup the webapplication it doesnt seem to find the jar within the subdirectories, I checked the server logs and I see that the the subdirectory has been picked up by a classloader. I've added the log below. Is there any setting withing jboss or the embedded tomcat which I need to set to enable subdirectory lookup?

Added url: file:/C:/java_tools/jboss-3.2.5/server/default/deploy/dashboard.war/WEB-INF/classes/, to ucl: org.jboss.mx.loading.UnifiedClassLoader3@198046{ url=file:/C:/java_tools/jboss-3.2.5/server/default/deploy/dashboard.war/ ,addedOrder=32}

Added url: file:/C:/java_tools/jboss-3.2.5/server/default/deploy/dashboard.war/WEB-INF/lib/sub/, to ucl: org.jboss.mx.loading.UnifiedClassLoader3@198046{ url=file:/C:/java_tools/jboss-3.2.5/server/default/deploy/dashboard.war/ ,addedOrder=32}

[Dale Seng]

I don't know about the JBoss/Apache implementation, but I'm pretty sure that the spec says that supporting jars need to be directly in the WEB-INF/lib (ie the spec doesn't require searching all subdirectories for jar files).

--Dale--