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Re: the v2 compatibility property

From: Marina Vatkina <Marina.Vatkina_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:13:00 -0700

Vince,

Would NB add the whole EJB jar to the client's jar manifest?

thanks,
-marina

Vince Kraemer wrote:
> On 10/28/09 23:46, Bill Shannon wrote:
>
>> [snip]
>> My understanding was that the issue we're talking about only effects
>> ear files. As I said above, I agree that having a way to set this
>> property in the sun-application.xml file would be good.
>>
>> But I'm still interested in the details of when NetBeans packages jar
>> files in the root of the ear file with the expectation that they'll
>> be available to all modules in the ear file, and why the NetBeans
>> developer who implemented it that way thought that was a good thing
>> to do.
>
>
> I do not think NetBeans has ever packaged "jar files in the root of the
> ear file with the expectation that they will be available to all modules
> in the ear file".
>
> NetBeans has added Class-Path entries to the manifest of modules to
> explicitly describe the references since NB 4.1, which shipped in May
> 2005. That is the method described in J2EE 8.2, "Optional Package
> Support". This method has also been described as part of the spec for
> Java EE 5 and Java EE 6.
>
> vbk
>
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