[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Closed: (JBAS-6258) Loading external JAR and its dependencies at server startup

Loading external JAR and its dependencies at server startup ----------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBAS-6258 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-6258 Project: JBoss Application Server Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: ClassLoading Affects Versions: JBossAS-4.2.3.GA Reporter: Rammohan Yadavalli How can I load a jar which is in some folder of the file system. I have a framework.jar containing the application related framework classes. These classes in turn are dependent on other jar files like spring, hibernate etc. I have a manifest file in the framework.jar which has Class-Path: entry point to spring.jar and hibernate.jar. The framework.jar, spring.jar and hibernate.jar all exist in a common folder e.g c:/app-framework. I want to load framework.jar at the server start up so that all the web applications will have access to the classes available in the framework.jar.