Accessing java files from one War to another on the same Websphere server

[Vivg Gupta]

Hi,

On the Websphere Server, we have many war files for different functionalities.

Now i want to refert to few java files and their referenced files, which are present in One war file (say A) to another war file (say B). Is this possible that java files in B can directly refer to the files present in A without actually moving the files from A to B.

Thanks,
Vivek.

[Paul Sturrock]

We have a forum specifically for WebSphere questions. You might get a better responce there, so I'll move this.

[Paul Clapham]

"Java files"? Surely you don't mean source code?

[Vivg Gupta]

Right... I dont mean the source code. I mean the reference to the class files.

[Paul Clapham]

Okay. Now, what does "refer to" mean here? Do you want to create instances of the classes in A? Do you want to forward to servlets in A? Using specific and standard terminology helps when you are asking this sort of question.

[Vivg Gupta]

"Refer to"- here it means that i want to refer the methods defined in classes.

But for the time being for running the code, i actually transferred the required class files from War A to War B.

But i was just wondering if we can call methods of class which is present in one war file in another war file.

[William Janssen]

You can modify the class loader policy so you can access all youre classes within one enterprise application or even from all applications.

[Dave Wingate]

It's beena while since I've had to do what you're attempting, but I recall that you might be able to solve your problem by using and EAR archive, containing:

webApp1.war
webApp2.war
commonClassesNeededInAllWebApps.jar