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WAR using extenal JARs

From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:15:11 PDT

We have a web application (WAR) that uses something like 40 Jars.

We need to deploy a new version of the application every day to a remote
production server. The application changes, but the Jars stay the same, so we would like to separate the WAR file from it's jars, preferably to another WAR, so ideally we want to have 2 files, one is the WAR file of the application, and the other one a file (Super-Jar) containing the JARs, but there isn't such a thing.
We need to do so, so we won't have to upload one big WAR every time, which takes a lot of time.

What we do now, but it's awkward and not portable, is to put all the Jars in the glassfish/lib folder, but it's really hard to manage from there, and it is a bad solution.

We need something that we can deploy, not to just copy. Something that can be managed from the Glassfish.

Anybody?
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