Ejb jar - packaging utility jars or classes?

Currently I have an ejb jar that contains 1 bean (say ejb1.jar). This bean uses some utility classes (say util.jar). If I add the actuall .class files from util.jar to ejb1.jar everything works great. If I add util.jar to ejb1.jar I get errors like:
Unable to deploy EJB: SomeBean from ejb1.jar.jar:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/xxxx/xxxx/SomeClass
Shouldn't adding the util.jar file directly to the ejb1.jar file work? Do I have to do anything extra to get it to work?
thanks,
ryan

http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs70/programming/classloading.html#1069420
"Ryan Van Luttikhuisen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
Currently I have an ejb jar that contains 1 bean (say ejb1.jar). Thisbean uses some utility classes (say util.jar). If I add the actuall .class
files from util.jar to ejb1.jar everything works great. If I add util.jar
to ejb1.jar I get errors like:
>
Unable to deploy EJB: SomeBean from ejb1.jar.jar:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/xxxx/xxxx/SomeClass
Shouldn't adding the util.jar file directly to the ejb1.jar file work? DoI have to do anything extra to get it to work?
>
thanks,
ryan--
Dimitri

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