Commons jar file

Question

I have an application which under certain conditions sends out some emails to a group of users:-
mailService.sendEmail(email_Add, message);mailService is an instance of MailService which resides in a commons.jar file under the lib folder in JBOSS.
The application code resides in an ear file relay.ear under deploy folder of JBOSS.
The application reads the email address from the database:-
select emailAddress from users where userId='bbbb';Now whats required is to move the code executing this query in the class UsersDao to the utilitJar file as well so that any other application which might want to send email can also grab the emailaddress directly such that the call would now look like:-
mailService.sendEmail(userId, message);So the utility jar would access the database and send out emails.
My understanding is that it would not be possible since the lib folder doesnt have access to the datasources and connection pool under JBOSS.
Please advise if I am wrong?
In case there is another work around for this?
In case I am eight are there any documents/links explaining it so that I could present it to our design team.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

LisaM wrote:
gimbal2 wrote:
Why not make the commons lib part of your war or ear? Then it has access to whatever your application has access to.That could have been a good idea but as mentioned in my earlier post whats required is just simply putting it in the lib directory under libs folder and in case I am not wrong I dont think one could access the JNDI datasources and dataaccess from that folder. All I need is a confirmation of this. That one cannot access database from JBOSS/lib folder.Wait, what? Your requirement is to put the library somewhere where you quite specifically don't expect it to work?