MANIFEST.MF in RAD not listing all dependencies - rad

In my RAD, when I open up the MANIFEST.MF file for an ejb project, because I need to add dependencies, in the UI, I see (under dependencies):
Select other JARs or modules contained by the EAR that are required by this JAR or module. Only valid or existing dependencies are shown.
What does it mean by Only valid or existing dependencies. I say this because not all projects in the workspace are listed under Dependencies. And the project that I need to add as dependency is not listed here. What is the reason for this?


I found the solution although do not understand the reason. I need to add the project jar under JAVA EE Module Dependencies

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How to add dependent jars to deploying plug-in

I would to like to add the dependent jars to the update site plugin project in Eclipse.
I followed
http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_create_an_update_site_%28site.xml%29%3F
but, it does not address the above issue. How to deal with the dependent jars with deploying plugin? Anybody please help with ideas.
Thanks

I'm going to assume you are wanting to add additional Jar files to your plugin. You can do this by simply putting the Jar files into the top level directory of your plugin, and in the Classpath portion of the Runtime tab in the Plugin Manifest Editor you can specify the Jar file. This will automatically add it to the build path as well.
Some people prefer to make an extra plugin that contains nothing but external Jar files; you add the Jar files to this extra plugin the same way and then just use the Dependencies tab in the Plugin Manifest Editor to make your original plugin dependent on the Jar plugin.

Convert web application project to maven project and convert corresponding .classpath file to pom.xml

Is it possible to convert project .classpath file to pom.xml after converting a simple web application project to maven project? Because if my project uses many jars and I want to convert it to maven then I will do configure->convert to maven but then it is not possible to add all the jars dependencies in pom.xml manually. So is there any tool to convert this.

First there is no tool to do such things. The problem is usually that you have a larger number of dependencies which you don't need to put into the pom.xml file, cause Maven handles transitive dependencies which means you only need to add only direct dependencies. The best thing is to look at the current projects jar files and try to find them in Maven Central and cut&paste the information form the search output into your pom. And of course test the build via Maven on command line.

Adding external jars to EJB project using EAR content folder

i have EAR and an EJB project. I noticed eclipse (sts) creates and earContent folder so I assume this is where I need to add external jars.
I added my hibernate and log4j jars on this folder but my EJB classes cannot resolve Logger class and hibernate classes.
What's the correct way of adding these jars? or should I just add them to the EJB build path?

Add jars to ear project EarContent folder
In Eclipse Right click ejb project, Properties
Deployment Assembly - Manifest Entries - Add
Choose your jars to add, OK
OK
jars now added to manifest in ejb project, should work.
I'm looking at this in a project for the first time, I'd be very surprised if there wasn't a better solution to this that doesn't require Maven. The Java EE Tools - Update EAR Libraries option looks particularly suspicious, but doesn't seem to do the above. Note I'm on Helios still.

Add those jars under folder EarContent/lib directly , then all is done.
I.E., EarContent/lib/foo.jar will work but EarContent/lib/dir/foo.jar won't.

jar-with-dependencies Maven Assembly

I created a simple Maven project (Packaging type - Jar) that has dependencies on Spring and My Sql library (mysql-connector). When I package this project with $mvn package I do get a jar file after successful execution of this command.
I was also trying to include all the dependencies in the output jar file, so I added a 'jar-with-dependencies' assembly descriptor, but as the documentation says:
The `jar-with-dependencies` descriptor builds a JAR archive with the contents of the main project jar along with the unpacked contents of all the project’s runtime dependencies.
I want to include the dependencies in JAR form, not the unpacked way. How can I do this?

Java cannot load classes from jars in your jar out of the box. You must configure it with project like one-jar and maven plugin.

Maybe this can help Maven Shade Plugin:Maven Excecutable Jar
Olivier

Vicky is trying to aggregate the jars and this is known as "building-an-aggregate-jar" in Maven's terms. You can find more in Robert's[1] and Artifact Technical Notes'[2] blog.
One discussion[3] that can help as well.
Regards
[1] http://rombertw.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/maven-recipe-building-an-aggregate-jar/
[2] http://blog.artifact-software.com/tech/?p=121
[3] http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Aggregate-POM-for-thirdparty-package-dependencies-not-downloaded-td113927.html

Include one Maven assembly inside another?

My project generates 3/4 assemblies, 3 jars and 1 war.[I need to use assemblies itself]
I need to include 2 of these assembly jars into my war.
How can I ensure that before assembly war creation , other 2 jars are created ?
Please respond

You have three choices:
define all the assembly executions in one plugin configuration, and order them as needed.
See this answer for more details.
Define an earlier phase for your jar assemblies so that they have all been packaged before the war is packaged.
Move the jar content into separate projects and specify them as dependencies of the war project so they are packaged automatically. This is the "Maven way" of handling this. It would also allow you to potentially reuse the jars in other wars.
I'd recommend option 3 myself, but the other two should both work.