Daniel,
> Dear all,
>
> I have a little problem with my EJB JAR file creation, using the ejbjar
> tag. Some of my EJB have their own exception (derived obviously from
> EJBException), but the corresponding exception class is not included
> automatically in the EJB JAR file :
>
> <!-- Create the EJB JAR files -->
> <target name="ejbjar" depends="compile">
> <ejbjar descriptordir="${res}"
> destdir="${lib}"
> srcdir="${classes}">
> <classpath refid="project.class.path"/>
> <include name="**/*-ejb-jar.xml"/>
> <exclude name="**/*jboss*.xml"/>
> <jboss destdir="${lib}"/>
> <dtd publicId="-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans
> 1.1//EN"
> location="http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/ejb-jar_1_1.dtd"/>
> <dtd publicId="-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS//EN"
> location="http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss.dtd"/>
> </ejbjar>
> </target>
>
> Then the deployment failed, until I provide to JBoss an auxiliary JAR
> file containing these exception classes in $JBOSS/lib/ext; but I have to
> stop and start JBoss... I feel that to put EJB exception classes in an
> auxiliary JAR file, else than the EJB JAR file, is an ugly method, no ?
>
For Ant 1.3/Ant 1.4 you can use the <support> element to add *files* to your
ejbjar. That isn't a great solution, though, IMHO. Once Ant 1.4 is released,
I will be adding code to slurp in all classes that your ejbjar depends on. A
patch has been submitted for this already.
> Do you have a magic tip to ask ejbjar tag for adding EJB exception class
> in the EJB JAR file (something generic of course) ? Is there an inner
> variable corresponding to the name of the current EJB ejbjar tag
> proceeds (so we can add <include name="**/${EJBName}Exception.class"/>)
> ?
No.
Conor
