Where to put external libs in Glassfish

Question

I have created a JSF2 project with Netbeans 7 and successfully deployed it on Glassfish 3.1. The ear file has grown quite big (6.5mb) though, most of it consists of externa

Answer 1

I think I can answer the question myself now: domain1/lib seems to be the right place to put all those jar files. At least it works perfectly on the 2 Linux boxes I tried and on my Mac. I also found out why it didnt work the same on my Windows 7 laptop. The domain path is user specific if you use the Glassfish install that comes with Netbeans, that means you have to put the jar files under

C:\Users\`username`\.netbeans\7.0\config\GF3\domain1\lib

to work as expectd, jars under

C:\Program Files\glassfish-3.1\glassfish\domain\domain1\lib

on the other hand seem to be ignored by the classloader.

Answer 2

The only directory that is part of the classpath is the domain1\lib\classes directory. Putting your jars there will add them to the classpath.

You can also put in your ear file under the lib directory (formerly APP-INF\lib). That is the place to put your shared jars.