Referencing Shared Java EE Libs in Weblogic from WAR inside EAR

Question

We have a number of applications that need to reference to both Oracle and our own Shared Java EE Libraries on WebLogic. They are structured as folows:
Our own shared library, "framework", is packaged as a JAR inside an EAR, along with all non-Oracle, third-party libraries (JAR:s) and deployed as a shared library in WebLogic. This is it's manifest:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: Apache Maven 3.0.4
Built-By: lajokon
Build-Jdk: 1.7.0_07
Implementation-Vendor: <organization>
Implementation-Title: Framework Lib
Implementation-Version: 15.0.2
Implementation-Vendor-Id: org
Specification-Vendor: <organization>
Specification-Title: Framework Lib
Specification-Version: 15.0.2
Extension-Name: framework-lib
All JAR:s are in APP-INF/lib
The applications are each packaged in a WAR inside its own EAR. The WAR weblogic.xml:
<wls:weblogic-web-app>
<wls:weblogic-version>10.3.6</wls:weblogic-version>
<wls:context-root>app-name</wls:context-root>
<wls:library-ref>
<wls:library-name>adf.oracle.domain.webapp</wls:library-name>
<wls:specification-version>1.0</wls:specification-version>
<wls:exact-match>false</wls:exact-match>
</wls:library-ref>
<wls:library-ref>
<wls:library-name>jsf</wls:library-name>
<wls:specification-version>2.0</wls:specification-version>
<wls:exact-match>false</wls:exact-match>
</wls:library-ref>
</wls:weblogic-web-app>
The EAR application.xml:
<application>
<display-name>app-name</display-name>
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>app-name.war</web-uri>
<context-root>/app-name</context-root>
</web>
</module>
</application>
The EAR weblogic-application.xml:
<weblogic-application>
<library-ref>
<library-name>adf.oracle.domain</library-name>
<specification-version>1.0</specification-version>
<exact-match>false</exact-match>
</library-ref>
<library-ref>
<library-name>coherence</library-name>
<specification-version>3.7</specification-version>
<exact-match>false</exact-match>
</library-ref>
<library-ref>
<library-name>framework-lib</library-name>
<specification-version>15.0</specification-version>
<exact-match>false</exact-match>
</library-ref>
</weblogic-application>
All libraries are deployed by default or deploy correctly in WL. As does the application EAR.
But, when I access the application i get runtime errors saying it can't load resources located in the WAR:s WEB-INF/classes dir!?
However, I can see, from log output, that it loads resources from the Framework EAR. Why does WL not seem to care about the contents of my WAR?

Answer 1

If I use the Admin Server Console to view the shared library, I can see ecif-ear(1.0,1.0) in the Deployments list. Its State is shown as "Active", Type is "Library", Deployment Order is 100.
I deployed the shared library using the Admin Server Console but deployed the referencing application using WorkShop for WebLogic Platform by Run As -> Run on Server. The Eclipse error log shows the following Exception Stack Trace:
com.bea.workshop.wls.core.j2eelib.UnresolvableReferenceException: ecif-ear|1.0|1.0|true
     at com.bea.workshop.wls.core.j2eelib.LibraryModuleRegistry.resolve(LibraryModuleRegistry.java:106)
     at com.bea.workshop.wls.core.j2eelib.LibraryModulesSvc.resolve(LibraryModulesSvc.java:884)
     at com.bea.workshop.wls.core.server.internal.J2EEDeploymentHelper.deployLibraryModules(J2EEDeploymentHelper.java:409)
     at com.bea.workshop.wls.core.server.internal.J2EEDeploymentHelper.deployAllLibraryModules(J2EEDeploymentHelper.java:392)
     at com.bea.workshop.wls.core.server.internal.J2EEDeploymentHelper.deploy(J2EEDeploymentHelper.java:198)
     at com.bea.workshop.wls.core.server.internal.WeblogicServerBehaviour.publishModules(WeblogicServerBehaviour.java:893)
     at com.bea.workshop.wls.core.server.internal.WeblogicServerBehaviour.publishOnce(WeblogicServerBehaviour.java:459)
     at com.bea.workshop.wls.core.server.internal.WeblogicServerBehaviour.publish(WeblogicServerBehaviour.java:334)
     at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server.doPublish(Server.java:862)
     at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server.publish(Server.java:850)
     at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.PublishServerJob.run(PublishServerJob.java:142)
     at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:58)