Packaging your enterprise application

For a J2EE enterprise application to work with the JPPF JCA connector, it is necessary to include a JPPF utility library called jppf-j2ee-client.jar, which can be found in the jca-client/build/lib folder. To ensure that this library can be made visible to all modules in the application, we recommend the following way of packaging it:

• add jppf-j2ee-client.jar in a lib folder under the root of the EAR file
• for each EJB, Web or Resource Adapter module of your application that will use JPPF, add a Class-Path entry in the META-INF/manifest.mf of the module, which will point to the JPPF library, for instance:

Class-Path: lib/jppf-j2ee-client.jar

In a typical J2EE application, it would look like this:

  MyApplication.ear/
 
      lib/
          jppf-j2ee-client.jar
 
      MyEJBModule.jar/
          ...
          META-INF/
              manifest.mf:
                  ...
                  Class-Path: lib/jppf-j2ee-client.jar
                  ...
          ...
 
      ... other modules ...
 
      MyWebApp.war/
          ...
          META-INF/
              manifest.mf:
                  ...
                  Class-Path: lib/jppf-j2ee-client.jar
                  ...
          ...