VirtualWebappLoader or similar for WebLogic to add directories to war's classpath?

Question

How can I make an external directory (where additional jars will be deployed) available on the classpath of a war deployed to WebLogic?

I am familiar with how to do this

Answer 1

Yes weblogic has the option to do this as well with virtual-directory-mapping inside weblogic.xml:

  
    C:\my\images
    *.jpg
    dir/*
  

See the Oracle docs here

Other options to use jars outside of a war include installing the jar as a shared library or simply including the jar files inside of your /lib folder to make them available to all applications.