Multiple applications in standalone OC4J

Question

I’m using Eclipse in XP to deploy applications to the standalone OC4J server. Certain applications use different .jar files from the others. I understand that all jars in the c:\oracle\oc4j10.1.3\j2ee\home\applib are used by all applications. When using a certain application I have to manually move the correct jars into this folder.
Previously I have deployed applications to an OC4J container in Oracle 10g application server running in Unix. Each container has it’s own folder and config files. application.xml is used to list which jar files are to be used with the application.
Is there a way to have an application specify which .jar files it uses in the standalone OC4J during runtime?
Thanks,
Dan

Answer 1

Hello,
You have a correct understanding of the applib folder, but in 10.1.3.x OC4J provides a better and newer way to manage libraries that you want to share between application: they are "OracleAS Shared Libraries"
You can find more about that there:
- Creating and Managing Shared Libraries
- See infrastructure how tos that explains for example how to create an XML or JDBC share lib.
You can deploy your libraries using admin_client.jar and do that in a group, so all the instances will have the same libraries; or simply script the deployment of the library when not part of the same group.
Regards
Tugdual Grall