Configure JBOss cache to run on JBoss server 4.2.3.GA

Question

Our commercial application used to run on different application server and letely we started adjust it to run on JBoss server. The problem is that that application runs JBoss ca

Answer 1

JBoss appserver comes with JBossCache pre-packaged, so your webapp doesn't need to include it. If you try, then you'll get classloader problems, since JBossCache uses some pretty low-level libraries.

There is a side-effect to this problem, which is that there seems to be no way to upgrade the version of JBossCache within JBoss appserver (due to those same shared low-level libraries). JBossAS 4.2.3 ships with JBossCache 1.4.1, which is 2 generations behind the current release. I've spent quite some time trying to get around this, but I've yet to manage it, and so my apps are all stuck on 1.4.1.