How to include jar files in WS assembling

Question

HI, There:
I have a webservice project works well except I canot include lib files in WEB-INF. I need following dir in war files
WEB-INF
--classes/com.xyz.....
--lib/my.jar
I use following target in build.xml
<target name="webservice-setup" depends="setup,compile-webservice">
<echo message="-----> Assembling the webservice"/>
<oracle:assemble appName="${app.name}"
serviceName="${app.name}"
interfaceName="com.ivgn.protomineWS.service.ProtomineService"
className="com.ivgn.protomineWS.service.ProtomineServiceImpl"
input="${bld.webservice.dir}"
output="${out.dir}"
ear="${lib.dir}/${ear.name}.ear">
<classpath>
<pathelement location="${OC4J_HOME}/webservices/lib/wsa.jar"/>
</classpath>
</oracle:assemble>
</target>
where can i add the lib directory so that many jar files for this application can get into lib directory. Looks like this "assemble" command has no argument for "lib". The "input" argument only handle the classes files.
Thanks
TZhang

Answer 1

There are two way to do this.
1) you assemble the .ear file, expand it's content, make modification and re-package using jar command (plain ant style).
2) instead of using the -ear option, you can use the -war option. It will leave the content in is expanded form, and you can then do the packaging in your own way, after making modifications.
You may also want to take a look at the 'appendToExistingDDs' flag of the assemble command (see chapter 16 of the user's guide [1]).
appendToExistingDDs <true|false>
Determines whether entries for a new Web service will be appended to the existing
deployment descriptors or whether they will be overwritten. The deployment
descriptors that can be affected by this argument are oracle-webservices.xml,
web.xml, and webservices.xml.
Beware; this style of assembly is a little hard to use, as you cannot re-run the same target twice, without to restore the original files.
Hope this helps,
Eric
[1] http://download-west.oracle.com/otn_hosted_doc/ias/preview/web.1013/b14434.pdf