[mitab]

I have a spring application which uses component scanning and import of subsidiary context files into the main application context. While this application runs fine from within MyEclipse for Spring 8.6 when I export the project as an executable jar with the dependent libraries packaged, the beans are not found. For eg my main class has the following code
ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[] {“applicationContext.xml”});
WIPListService wipListService = context.getBean(“WIPListService”, WIPListServiceImpl.class);
wipListService.generateEAODualRoleReport();

In the application context file I have
<import resource=”classpath:ServiceContext.xml” />

In the service context file I have
<context:component-scan base-package=”service”/>

and in the service package my bean class is annotated as

@Service(“WIPListService”)
public class WIPListServiceImpl implements WIPListService {

Similarly another bean which was referring to a bean gave an error till I actually defined the bean in the xml file.

Is there anything special I need to do while exporting the application to get it to work outside MyEcipse. I selected Export -> Runnable Jar File and package dependent libraries in jar files as the option and run the jar from the command prompt as java -jar <jarfilename>.jar

[davemeurer]

Hello,

Would the Adding Classes to the JAR File’s Classpath tutorial help? It seems a couple folks had similar issues, and one of the comments was the spring jar needed to be outside the app jar: Deployment as a jar forum post

If that doesn’t help, please respond with the error messages you are seeing.

Kind regards,
Dave

[mitab]

Hi,

Thanks for the information. Based on your reply that the spring and other jar files need to be outside the application jar I regenerated the jar this time selecting to create an executable jar file with the libary jar files placed in a sub folder. This option worked and is much easier than manually specifying all the dependent library jars externally.

Thank you so much for your help.

[davemeurer]

Hello,

Glad to hear it! Thanks for replying and posting what worked.

Kind regards,
Dave

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