Where to put utility jar (used by EJB's and war)

Hello all,
In many cases when you create a web application including EJB's and a WAR file packaged together in an EAR file, you need some utility classes that are used in the EJB's as wel as in the servlets in the WAR. The utility classes might for example be value object classes that servlets use to exchange data with te EJB's.
My question is: What is the best place to put the utility class files?
There is a new article on JDC: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/build/ that gives some tips. For example, it proposes to put the utility JAR in the EAR file and then add a "Class-Path:" entry to the MANIFEST.MF of the EJB's that use the utility classes.
However, this approach does not work on BEA Weblogic 6.0. Weblogic's classloader just seems to ignore the "Class-Path:" in the EJB JAR's manifest.
Any thoughts?
regards
Jesper

The "CLASS-PATH" mechanism in that article is a new
requirement in J2EE 1.3 (final draft 4). Therefore
right now Weblogic does not support it yet. Now you
need to put those utility classes in both the WAR (in
WEB-INF/lib) and EJB JAR files. If you really want
only 1 copy of the jar file deployed, you can manually
add that jar file to weblogic server classpath in the
start script under config/yourdomain.HI all,
I have some Utility jar file for EJB and Web Application,
In the second solution about one copy in weblogic,
I tried it in the WLS60 it's ok
But it didn't work in WLS61
Anyone could give me any good suggestion?
Moen

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