JBoss EJB spec violation in AbstractStatelessSessionBean?

[gmatthews]

Thats good news.

The other benefit is that you can actually have a remote chance of knowing where a jar came from instead of having a gajillion jar files all in web-inf\lib

[Arno Werr]

Quick question.
Which ant task are you using to generate lib subdirectory in ear file and put there *.jar files.
Does ear task have such functionality?

[gmatthews]

<copy> and then <ear>

[Arno Werr]

After playing a little I am sticking with zipfileset with attribute lib or lib/spring or lib/whatever.
Like this

<target name="make-ear" description="Should be called either from ear or ear-compile">
        <mkdir dir="${distribution.dir}" />
        <ear destFile="${distribution.dir}/${ear.name}" appxml="${meta-inf.dir}/application.xml">
            <!-- jars to be included from these dirs -->
            <fileset dir="${common.jar.dir}" />
            <fileset dir="${dao.jar.dir}" />
            <fileset dir="${facade.jar.dir}" />
            <fileset dir="${webapp.war.dir}" />
            <!-- include jboss-app.xml -->
            <metainf dir="${meta-inf.dir}">
                <include name="jboss-app.xml" />
            </metainf>
             <!-- here you go!!! -->
            <zipfileset dir="${lib.dir}" prefix="lib"/>
        </ear>
    </target>

Wouldn't be nice to have a dedicated lib element in ear target as we have in war?

<war destfile="myapp.war" webxml="src/metadata/myapp.xml">
  <fileset dir="src/html/myapp"/>
  
  <lib dir="thirdparty/libs">
    <exclude name="jdbc1.jar"/>
  </lib>
  
</war>