JBoss Custom lib directory

Question

I have this third party framework which comes with a huge set of dependent libraries, which by the way, have not yet been indexed in any Maven repository. I want to use this framework with some Web Apps, but for obvious reasons I don't want to put all those libraries under WEB-INF/lib, neither do I want just to place them all under server/default/lib to avoid mixing them with other local and third party libraries.

Is there some way under JBoss 4.2.2 or higher to specify a custom lib directory for certain Web Apps? It's possible and/or advisable to have something like server/default/lib/myAppLib?

Any suggestion on this regard?

Answer 1

To my knowledge, you have three options:

1. Package you WARs in an EAR and move the library JARs out of WEB-INF/lib and place them in a lib folder at the root of the EAR. No extra configuration required. This (non portable) solution is described in Configuring JBoss shared libs.

2. Move the library JARs out of WEB-INF/lib and place them into server/xxx/lib.

3. Deploy the JARs in the deploy/ folder and disable WAR file class loader isolation.

I don't recommend option #3. Option #2 is what you don't want. This leaves us with option #1 (which is IMO the cleanest).

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