I'm attempting to migrate a fairly large project from
JBoss AS5 to AS7. The project is built with
ant, the build process is pretty complex. I'm running into a lot of problems.
The first thing I did was read through the AS7 documentation -
https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS7/, focusing on 'How do I migrate my application from AS5 or AS6 to AS7?'
https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS7/How+do+I+migrate+my+application+from+AS5+or+AS6+to+AS7
I managed to set up a new data source and import my project into AS7. When I try to build the project I'm getting a lot of class loading errors, which I expected.
Our build.xml sets 'build.classpath' for use during the 'compile' stage of the build process
does AS7 not honor these ant directives?
I tried to solve this by creating an *ear/meta-inf/MANIFEST.MF file that references the class path
This doesn't seem to work - I am still getting the package javax.jms does not exist errors.
I'm going by the class loading procedures documented in the AS7 manual - what am I doing wrong?
Is it because i'm using ant? Should I switch to maven? My project and build are fairly complex, and I'm not sure if it will be worth going down that route if there's a simple solution to fix these errors with ant in AS7.
Any advice appreciated - thanks!