Can a EJB module reference a WEB module?

[Luciano Queiroz]

Hi folks!

Is it possible for a EJB module to reference a WEB module?
In the same EAR there is a EJB module (.jar) and a web module (.war).
The classes in the EJB module use classes in the WEB module.
But everytime I deploy the EAR and test the EJBs, 9iAS throws a ClassNotFoundException from the EJB.

I already tried to use a MANIFEST file in EJB.jar but I don't know which value I have to insert in the Class-Path attribute to reference classes in the web module.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Luciano,
This seems to me to be more of a design question (about ejb modules referencing web modules), so I'm moving it to:
J2EE

Why does your ejb module need to refer to a web module? Does the web module also refer to the ejb module? You want to avoid circular dependencies.

Without knowing more about your situation, it looks like a refactoring is in order. The classes that are used by both the ejb module and web module can be moved to a separate "common" project/jar file. That way the structure is clearer and you don't have the awkward dependency structure.

[Navin Keswani]

The problem has a very simple solution just make an entry into your manifest file of your jar file using the following syntax

Class-Path: some.jar somexyz.war

the jars or wars have to seperated by spaces.

I hope this solves your problem.

Regards,
Navin Keswani

[Luciano Queiroz]

Very simple, but it didn't solve my problem.

[Karthik Guru]

Originally posted by Luciano Queiroz:
Very simple, but it didn't solve my problem.

Did you try Jeanne suggestion of creating a common.jar of all the shared classes and putting it in the lib folder of the ear?