Declare external jars in the manifest in a EAR file

Hi all,
I'm using weblogic 7.0, I build a web service from a java class. So here is the ear file :
- myWebservice.ear - META-INF - application.xml
- myWebservice.ear - META-INF - MANIFEST.MF
- myWebservice.ear - web-services.war - META-INF - MANIFEST.MF
- myWebservice.ear - web-services.war - WEB-INF - classes - ...
- myWebservice.ear - web-services.war - WEB-INF - web-services.xml
- myWebservice.ear - web-services.war - WEB-INF - web.xml
- myWebservice.ear - web-services.war - myWebserviceClient.jar
I hope I'm clear... :)
Actually, I would like to add in the 2nd manifest.mf something like :
Class-Path: ../lib/myTools.jar
myTools.jar is not in the ear file, it is just a relative path.
Can someone tell me is it is possible ? If so, how to do so?
I will appreciate any advice :)
Regards.

No, that doesn't work in J2EE 1.3.
The typical approach would be to include the jar file within the EAR and then in the WAR file, specify a manifest class-path.
If you were using WLS 9.x, then it would be possible to deploy the jar file separately as a library or optional package, but this is not available in 7.0
-- Rob
WLS Blog http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/rwoollen/

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