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Article: Best Practices for Building Production Quality EAR Files
Subject:  my 2 cents
Date:  2008-02-23 03:18:17
From:  e.legoulven@lectra.com

Thanks for this article, putting lights on the 'bea' packaging recommandation.
As I've been able to overcome the packaging compatibility agains WAS6.x/JBOSS4.x/WLS9x, I do not completely agree with the PKS013 recommadation :
Use of Class-Path header in MANIFEST.MF file to load libraries is prohibited

since effort spent in specific app server vendor deployment descriptors generation -I'm talking about the 1.4 jee spec-, revealed much more important than war/ejb class-path lib dependency declaration built up, and happens to be at the end one of the rare common packaging item our team has had to customized to match app-server vendor environment specificity.

Rgds