folks, please advise. I have a maven project with many maven modules. Those modules are java web applications and one jar, on which those web apps depend and which contains core functionality (let's call it core.jar). I deploy them to stable release of Wildfly app server with no problem and everything works fine. However, I noticed that all of my war files contain the same core.jar in the WEB-INF/lib folder. Could you tell me if it is possible to deploy this core.jar only once and make all war files see it? The only thing I could think of now is to install this core.jar as a jboss module (like this) and refer to it from manifest file in every web app.
What do you think?
Regards, Oleg
Probably the best solution would be to create JBoss modules. Here is an example of using OJDBC. Also, you need to configure a shared lib. You can use a JBoss specific deployment descriptor, named jboss-app.xml which is to be placed in the META-INF folder of your EAR. Here's a sample of it:
<!DOCTYPE jboss-app PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD J2EE Application 5.0//EN"
"http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-app_5_0.dtd" >
<jboss-app>
<library-directory>APP-INF/lib</library-directory>
</jboss-app>
It might be valuable for you to check the class loading specs.