[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: Stuart Douglas Priority: Blocker Fix For: 7.1.0.Beta1 Attachments: testJBossErrorApp.zip When an ejb jar file in an ear references a regular non ejb jar file using the MANIFEST.MF Class-Path: entry the non ejb jar file has no visibility to javax.* classes. This results in the run time exception java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError when passing javax.* objects to the accessed jar or when constructing them in the jar. For example "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/naming/InitialContext" is thrown when constructing a javax.naming.InitialContext in the accessed non ejb jar. Referencing jars through a MANIFEST.MF is standard J2EE and is defined in the JBOSS AS 7 Documentation as proper for portability. Using <ejb>/lib for the jar does not exhibit the error but prevents the jar from being used as a deployment module. Thus not a solution for a jar that needs to be shared across ears such as one which contains remote session bean interfaces. Adding javax.api to the Dependencies of the jars does not have any affect. Methods in the referenced jar that do not use javax.* classes work fine.