How to create a deployment dependency for wmq.jmsra.rar (Websphere MQ Client) in domain mode ?

Issue

• We have an web application and we are using the JBoss / Websphere MQ method as illustrated in the following this article.

• In this method you need to do the following:

  • Create a connection factory and administrative objects using the resource-adapter section.
  • Setup the jboss-web.xml with references to the JNDI names of the objects and connection factory.

• In the article the example is done in standalone environment and the application dependency is created by placing the wmq.jmsra.rar in the /deploy directory of the application. In our case we are working in domain environment and we do as follows :

  • deploy the application using cli.
  • deploy the wmq.jmsra.rar using cli.
  • setup the jboss-web.xml
  • setup the jboss-deployment-structure.xml to try and create a dependency to the rar.

• To create a dependency to an application using jboss-deployment-structure.xml is this done correctly.

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jboss-deployment-structure.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss-deployment-structure>
    <sub-deployment name="someWar-1.0.war">
         <dependencies>
              <module name="wmq.jmsra.rar" ></module>
         </dependencies>
    </sub-deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>

• Can we load the wmq.jmsra.rar as a module and then use the jboss-deployment-structure.xml. We have read this will not work due to some exl files packed with the rar ?
• Can we explode the rar and then build the module and then use the jboss-deployment-structure.xml ?

• Can we explode the rar and pack the *.jars in the /WEB-INF/lib directory.

• The application fails to deploy when a attempt to set the wmq.jmsra.rar as a dependency.

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ibm/mq/MQException