Last thought on this for now: what if the deployment mechanism (when deploying an .ear) first added the lib jars to its classpath? Then at least the classloader would be able to see all the utility jars that the .rar file might require, and when the Work instance gets kicked off all required classes could be found.
Best,
Laird
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