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<title outputclass="id_title">Correcting cyclical dependencies after an EAR
is imported</title>
<shortdesc outputclass="id_shortdesc">You can resolve cyclical dependencies
after an EAR is imported.</shortdesc>
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<p>A cyclical dependency between two or more modules in an enterprise application most commonly
occurs when projects are imported from outside the workbench. When a cycle
exists between two or more modules in an enterprise application, the <tm tmclass="special"
tmowner="Sun Microsystems, Inc." tmtype="tm" trademark="Java">Java</tm> builder
cannot accurately compute the build order of the projects. Full builds fail
under these conditions, or require several invocations.</p><p>Therefore, the
best practice is to organize your projects or modules into components. This
allows your module dependencies to function as a tree instead of a cycle diagram.
This practice has the added benefit of producing a better factored and layered
application.</p></context>
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<step><cmd>Identify all the classes within the JAR files that have cyclical
dependencies, then move those classes into a common <tm tmclass="special"
tmowner="Sun Microsystems, Inc." tmtype="tm" trademark="Java">Java</tm> project
or JAR file.</cmd></step>
<step><cmd>Use the enterprise application editor to map utility JAR files
to the common projects.</cmd></step>
<step><cmd>Use the JAR dependency editor or properties page, for each module
of the JAR in the application, to set dependencies only to the JAR files that
are truly required.</cmd></step>
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