Do we actually have any users who've asked for this? Otherwise, I think it's unnecessary.
On 9 Feb 2012, at 01:14, Marina Vatkina wrote:
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> As you know, while it's easy to package a library into a .war file or a .ear archive, there is no easy way to do the same for a stand-alone EJB module in a portable way. The only current option is to use a reference by adding a Class-Path attribute to the Manifest file of the EJB .jar file (or another referenced archive) but this is not portable as it requires to place referenced library in the specific location of the application server file system (in case that .jar file is not used from its original location).
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> Do you thing the EJB spec should allow an EJB .jar file to have a lib/ directory inside it? If yes, will there be any restrictions that we will need to address?
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> Thank you,
> -marina
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