I am using JCS to store the ldap search results which should be shared by multiple EJB. I have created a singleton class to initialize JCS only once but due to EJB's classloader, it's been initialized multiple times with its own copy. so search resources are not shared.
How are you guys resolving issue where you need to share the cache across multiple beans? I am looking for cache within JVM. (Not the remote e.g memcached etc.).
Glassfish is used as an application server.
I haven't been able to test it yet, but I think that one of the techniques explained in the "Circumventing Class Loader Isolation" chapter of the Application Development Guide for the version of Glassfish you are using may solve you problem.
Short version, at least valid for versions 2-3-4 : use the Common Classloader (what exactly this common classloader does and its relation to the other classloaders is explained in the same manual). There are several ways to do this:
asadmin add-library --type common /path/to/your.jar (will only work in version 4 iirc)There are several questions here on SO that are related to "Circumventing Class Loader Isolation" (just use that search term), look there for examples and more discussion.