WAR Can't find class in JAR file in EAR/lib

Question

Hi,
I have 1 EAR file with 1 WAR and 1 EJB-JAR file. Our main business-code is in a JAR-file which is placed in the EAR/lib/ folder along with the rest of the shared JAR-files.
When i deploy the EAR the EJB gets deployed fine but when the WAR gets deployed, we get a ClassNotFoundException. We configured a class as a ServletContextListener (Which is part of the jar) in the web.xml so at startup it should perform some initiation. But since it can;t be found....
I've tried changing the Mainfest.mf to include a CLASSPATH attribute with ./lib/x.jar but it stil the same problem. The only thing that solves it is to put it in the WEB-INF/lib folder.
What am i doing wrong?
Thanks,
Maarten

Answer 1

Here it is
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.3//EN' 'http://java.sun.com/dtd/application_1_3.dtd'>
<application>
     <display-name>spg-online</display-name>
     <module>
          <web>
               <web-uri>appname.war</web-uri>
               <context-root>appname</context-root>
          </web>
     </module>
     <!--module>
          <ejb>appname-ejb.jar</ejb>
     </module-->     
</application>
My app follows the basic structure of an EAR-file:
EAR
META-INF
application.xml
lib
appname.jar
a.jar
spring.jar
appname.war
appname-ejb.jar
The meta-inf of the war-file looks like this:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.6.5
Created-By: 1.4.2_08-b03 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Class-path: ./lib/appname.jar ./spring.jar
I let ANT generate the Class-path:
<jar jarfile="${dist.home}/${component.name}.war">
<fileset dir="${build.home.webroot}" />
<!-- dependency -->
<manifest>
<attribute name="Class-Path" value="${lib.project.manifest.classpath}"/>
</manifest>
</jar>