Maven EJB packaging with dependent libraries

Question

Im facing an issue how to correctly package my enterprise (EAR) application with simple WAR and EJB3 module for JBoss7 application server. The thing is, that EJB module is u

Answer 1

I managed to solve the problem. It seems that these libraries has to be packaged within /lib directory and not in root of EAR. Adding defaultLibBundleDir element solved the problem.

E.g.:

<build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.6</version>
                <configuration>
                    <defaultLibBundleDir>lib</defaultLibBundleDir>
...

Answer 2

Did you leave the <addClasspath>true</addClasspath> on the EJB config?

Well, you can leave it like this, but you'll get a heap of log entries (WARN) on server start complaining about the classpath entries. I prefer to set it to false. <addClasspath>false</addClasspath>