AppFuseAddLibrary

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How to add a Library into AppFuse

From time to time you may need to add a library to AppFuse for your specific application. While this is not terribly difficult to do, there are several steps so it can be easy to miss one. Here is a step-by-step walk through so it will be harder to omit anything.

1. Create a new folder for your library in /lib using the pattern libname-version (e.g. /lib/iText-1.1).
2. Add all required .jar's into the folder you created. (e.g. /lib/iText-1.1/iText.jar)
3. Edit /lib/lib.properties to include a section like the following for your library. It is best to add it into its alphabetical location for easy locating in the future.

#
# iText PDF Library - http://www.lowagie.com/iText/download.html
#
itext.version=1.1
itext.dir=${lib.dir}/iText-${itext.version}
itext.jar=${itext.dir}/iText.jar

1. Add library to the necessary classpaths in /properties.xml. If you have only one .jar in your library you can add it to the classpath directly.

    <pathelement location="${itext.jar}"/>

    <fileset dir="${itext.dir}" includes="*.jar"/>

    <lib file="${itext.jar}"/>  

    <lib dir="${itext.dir}" includes="*.jar"/>