[jboss-as7-dev] Question about EAR's and Class Loading

[David M. Lloyd]

On 03/22/2011 02:42 PM, Andrig Miller wrote:
>> If OrderManagerEntities.jar is in the EAR's "lib" directory (or the
>> directory you have configured as such in application.xml) then the
>> OrderManagerEJB.jar should be able to "see" it. If not then you'll
>> need
>> an explicit "Class-Path" reference to it from your EJB JAR.
>
> No, my OrderManagerEntities.jar is not the EAR's "lib" directory, its at the same level as the OrderManagerEJB.jar, and its listed as an EJB module in the application.xml.
>
> This seems broken to me.

As a rule, we are restricting visibility by default as much as the spec 
allows (which may mean certain behaviors are different from AS 5/6).  So 
the question is really, is this contrary to spec?  If so, it's a bug. 
That's what we need to answer.

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