JAR files under WEB-INF but not in lib directory

I am working with JDeveloper 10g and I have several jar files under WEB-INF/lib and other under WEB-INF/libEst.
I have add this libraries to Project properties > Paths and it works fine when I run my aplication in local environment, but it fails when I deploy and run in the server.
I have configured our deploy file to include these WEB-INF/libEst jar files, but when I deploy to our server, it seems to be that this classes included in these jar files are not reachable and they cannot be loaded and throw a ClassNotFoundException.
Is it possible to have jar files under any WEB-INF subdirectory distinct of /lib?
Why is it working in local but not in server?
If someone can help me to configure this in order to deploy in server, I will be very grateful.
Thanks a lot,
Antonio.

Hi Antonio,
I think this document is what you are looking for: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/oc4j/htdocs/how-to-servlet-warmanifest.html
.. your manifest entries would look like
Class-Path: WEB-INF/libExt/<jarName1>.jar, WEB-INF/libExt/<jarName2>.jar, ...
Let me know if this works for you.
thanks,
Harsha

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"Steven Vetzal" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
Steven Vetzal wrote:I am attempting to open existing web projects in NitroX and am being
plagued with:
The class "com.someone.Class" is not in the application class path
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buildCommand
name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name
arguments
/arguments
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nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature
nature>com.m7.nitrox.webProjectNature</nature
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classpath of course... For example, my .classpath file looks like:
classpathentry kind="src" path="WEB-INF/classes"/
classpathentry kind="lib" path="WEB-INF/lib/cms-bindings-3.0.2.jar"/
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