Classloading order in JBoss

Question

I'd like to know if the default behavior of JBoss server (4.2.3.GA in my case) is loading the classes in parent-first or parent-last mode. And in case it work as I suspect in parent-last mode (i.e. first trying to load classes from the application's WEB-INF/lib and only if they are not found go to server\lib), how can I configure it to work in the opposite- first trying to load classes from outside and only looking inside the application afterwards.

Answer 1

It sounds like you need to set

java2ParentDelegation={false|true}

in your jboss-app.xml or jboss-web.xml. See this article for more information.