[m2e-users] maven-war-plugin: References to ejb.jar projects with wrong

[it-media.kopp@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hello,

I've been using m2e 1.1 together with
m2e-wtp 0.15.2 for some time and came across an issue that bugs me when
deploying an application to WebSphere Application Server 8.0.

I'm using the maven-war-plugin version
2.2, the maven-ear-plugin version 2.7  and maven-ejb-plugin version
2.3. I implemented the known workaround to support skinny wars as following
within the maven-war-plugin:
 
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>                   
        <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
        <packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/lib/*.jar</packagingExcludes>                     
                 
        <archive>
           
<manifest>
           
    <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>    
           
    <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>            
           
</manifest>
        </archive>                   
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Inside the EAR plugin, the configuration
parameter 'defaultLibBundleDir' is set to 'lib/' too. All dependencies
are added to both the ear and the war project with scope 'compile'.

Now I got confused by the generated
war, as the included MANIFEST.MF contains a Class-Path entry that lists
ejbs under lib/ too, while the maven-ear-plugin includes them in the root
directory of the ear. 

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Build-Jdk: 1.6.0
Built-By: zmbfts4
Class-Path: lib/pas-tools-2012.2.0.jar
lib/logging-5.0.0.jar lib/util-
 5.0.0.jar lib/pas-system-2012.2.0.jar
lib/jaxb2-basics-runtime-0.6.3.
 jar lib/joda-time-2.0.jar

Here, lib/pas-system-2012.2.0.jar should
be without 'lib/' as it is an EJB Project and this way listed as dependency.

Under WebSphere, this leads to an error,
as classes from the WAR do no longer find classes from the EJB.

When I manually generate the classpath
entry for the MANIFEST.MF, they application works correctly:

<archive>
    <manifestEntries>
        <Class-Path>lib/pas-tools-2012.2.0.jar
lib/logging-5.0.0.jar 
           
     lib/util-5.0.0.jar pas-system-2012.2.0.jar 
           
     lib/jaxb2-basics-runtime-0.6.3.jar lib/joda-time-2.0.jar
       
</Class-Path>
    </manifestEntries>
</archive>  

Does anybody know what the problem here
might be? Do I do something wrong here? 

Thank you

Heiko
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