I am unaware of any method to add 'part' of a jar to a Class-Path in the
MANIFEST.MF
vbk
Marina Vatkina wrote:
> 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