Re: [xep-support] XEP class loading

From: Werner Donné (werner.donne@re.be)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 04:27:58 PDT

  • Next message: Thonger, Ewan: "RE: [xep-support] XEP class loading"

    This is how it works:
       http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/extensions/spec.html#bundled

    It is part of the J2SE extension mechanism specification and should therefore
    be independent of the JVM. It was introduced in JDK1.2.

    Werner.

    Dawid Weiss wrote:
    > Really? I think they are relative to the JAR where they are declared -
    > I used it numerous times with my code and it all worked well (but I never
    > checked this with other JVM's but SUN's):
    >
    > java -jar ..\bubu\myjar.jar
    >
    > load all the (relative) jar dependencies from ..\bubu even though the
    > currect directory remains to be '.'
    >
    > Dawid
    >
    >
    >>>So, in fact the xep35_server.jar should list the other jars in its manifest
    >>>file. To establish this you could do an experiment in which you add such a
    >>>manifest file to the XEP jar. The real solution is, of course, that the
    >>>manifest file is in one the future releases of XEP.
    >>>
    >
    >
    > DT> A real problem with the real solution is that it is not possible to use
    > DT> relative paths in jar dependencies. That is, they are not relative
    > DT> to the jar they are specified in, but to the current directory.
    >
    > DT> Thus, the only good option remains repackaging the .jar.
    >
    > DT> David
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