How to use 3rd party libraries in glassfish?

Question

I need to connect to a MongoDB instance from my EJB3 application, running on glassfish 3.0.1. The Mongo project provides a set of drivers, and I'm able to use them in a standalone Java application.

How would I use them in a Java EE application? Or maybe better phrasing: how would I make a 3rd party library available to my application when it runs in an EJB container?

At the moment, I'm getting a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError when deploying a bean that tries to import from the library:

[#|2010-03-24T11:42:15.164+0100|SEVERE|glassfishv3.0|global|_ThreadID=28;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Class [ com/mongodb/DBObject ] not found. Error while loading [ class mvs.core.LocationCacheService ]|#]
[#|2010-03-24T11:42:15.164+0100|WARNING|glassfishv3.0|javax.enterprise.system.tools.deployment.org.glassfish.deployment.common|_ThreadID=28;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Error in annotation processing: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/mongodb/DBObject|#]

[#|2010-03-24T11:42:15.259+0100|SEVERE|glassfishv3.0|javax.enterprise.system.core.com.sun.enterprise.v3.server|_ThreadID=28;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Exception while loading the app
org.glassfish.deployment.common.DeploymentException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/mongodb/DBObject
at org.glassfish.weld.WeldDeployer.event(WeldDeployer.java:171)
at org.glassfish.kernel.event.EventsImpl.send(EventsImpl.java:125)
at org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.load(ApplicationInfo.java:224)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:338)

I tried adding it to the NetBeans project (Properties -> Libraries -> Compile -> Add Jar, enable 'Package'), and I also tried manually copying the jar file to $GF_HOME/glassfish/domains/domain1/lib (where the mysql-connector already resides).

Do I need to 'register' the library with the container? Reference it via Annotation? Extend the classpath of the container to include the library?

Answer 1

1. Go to your Glassfish doamin directory.

2. Then go to lib folder.

3. Place the libraries there.

4. Restart the glassfish and run.

(Ex) C:\glassfish3\glassfish\domains\domain1\lib