Run java class that lives in .ear

[Bobby Anderson]

So I have a main inside one of my java classes. It is packaged in a jar(test.jar) and that jar is placed in an ear(test.ear). The ear is deployed to the server.

Now I want to run that classes main by using the ear in my classpath. I know that if I just used the jar I could get to that class but the jar is in the ear already and I don't really want to put the jar in two places.

    
package com.test
class SomeTest {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.out.println("Hello world");
   }
}

java -cp $JBOSS_HOME/server/all/farm/test.ear com.test.SomeTest

When I do this I get the dreaded class not found error.

Anyone have a good way to say "come on java just look at all the .jar(s) in the ear archive to find that class.

[Henry Wong]

Unless this is a new feature just added to Java, you can't do it. You have to extract the files in the EAR file, so that you can have access to the JAR files...

Henry