Robin Hughes [http://community.jboss.org/people/rhinmass] created the discussion "Re: NoClassDefFound from EJB accessing third-party jar located in EAR" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/598265#598265 -------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you.  That was the problem.  Adding defaultLibBundleDir to the maven-ear-plugin configuration did the trick.   <build>     <plugins>       <plugin>         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>         <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>         <version>2.5</version>         <configuration> *<defaultLibBundleDir>lib</defaultLibBundleDir>*           <modules>                   ... -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/598265#598265] Start a new discussion in Beginner's Corner at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]

jaikiran pai [http://community.jboss.org/people/jaikiran] created the discussion "Re: NoClassDefFound from EJB accessing third-party jar located in EAR" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/602431#602431 -------------------------------------------------------------- Suraj, please create a separate topic with all the relevant details including the JBoss AS version, the Java vendor and version and the application packaging and the entire exception stacktrace. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/602431#602431] Start a new discussion in Beginner's Corner at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]