[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-2442) Non ejb jars referenced from an ejb jar in an ear via META-INF/MANIFEST.MF have no visiblity to javax.* classes

Non ejb jars referenced from an ejb jar in an ear via META-INF/MANIFEST.MF have no visiblity to javax.* classes --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-2442 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-2442 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: EE Affects Versions: 7.0.2.Final, 7.1.0.Alpha1 Environment: Windows 7 64 bit, Sun/Oracle 32 bit JDK 1.6.0_27-b07, Intel Core 2 Quad Reporter: Rodney Kite Assignee: David Lloyd Fix For: No Release When an ejb jar file in an ear references a standard jar file from an MANIFEST.MF entry the standard jar file has no access to javax.* class. This results in a run time exception "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/naming/InitialContext" when constructing a javax.naming.InitialContext or other javax.* class in the standard jar. Referencing jars through a MANIFEST.MF is defined in the JBOSS AS 7 Documentation as proper for portability. Using <ejb>/lib for the jar works but restricts access to the jar as a deployment module.