> It looks like the class loading is not working for me as described at
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r0/index.jsp?topic....

> Here is what is happening:

> I have an EAR, in which a client jar (clientlauncher.jar) resides. The
> Class-Path in its Manifest.mf is as follows:

>     Class-Path: plugins/framework plugins/checkservices
>     plugins/transferservices plugins/alerts plugins/pr
>     plugins/pr/achapps plugins/pr/wireapps
>     pr-hotfix.jar pr.jar

> The main class of the clientlauncher.jar, Launcher, should load
> another class. But it looks like it always does that from pr.jar,
> even when I put a modified version of the second class
> under, say, EAR_ROOT/plugins/pr (which is first on the classpath).

> Here's an experiment. I created the Launcher class as follows:

>    public static void main(String[]argv) {
>        String mainClass = argv[0];
>        ClassLoader loader = Launcher.class.getClassLoader();
>        String resource = mainClass.replaceAll("\\.", "/") + ".class";
>        System.out.println(mainClass +
>                                    ": " +
>                                   loader.getResource(resource));
>        URL url = null;
>        int i = 1;
>        for (Enumeration en = loader.getResources(resource);
>                    en.hasMoreElements();) {
>            url = (URL) en.nextElement();
>            System.out.println(i + ". " + mainClass + ": " + url);
>            i++;
>        }

> And here is what I get, when com.ph.pr.common.install.Noop class is
> both in pr.jar and in plugins/pr, under the EAR:

>        com.ph.pr.common.install.Noop:
> jar:file:/D:/apps/wcmsuite73/installedApps/WCM73_PaymentsAndReporting.ear/p r.jar!/com/ph/pr/common/install/Noop.class

>       1. com.ph.pr.common.install.Noop:
> jar:file:/D:/apps/wcmsuite73/installedApps/WCM73_PaymentsAndReporting.ear/p r.jar!/com/ph/pr/common/install/Noop.class

>       2. com.ph.pr.common.install.Noop:
> file:/D:/apps/wcmsuite73/installedApps/WCM73_PaymentsAndReporting.ear/plugi ns/pr/com/ph/pr/common/install/Noop.class

> In other words, as you can see, the JAR one gets loaded first!
> (But it certainly does find the one under plugins/pr if I do
> getResources()).

> That is to say, it seems that the order of Class-Path: entries
> in Manifest.mf is not honored...

> Thanks.