Ben Burton wrote:

>IIRC the issue of automatically including every jar in /usr/share/java has 
>already been hashed out on this list and decided to be a bad idea (too much 
>overhead, poor control over conflicts, etc), thought I could be wrong.
>
I did on September 2 make the following  suggestion:

>Java libraries packages *may* add a sympolic link from
>/usr/share/java/ext/packagename[-extraname].jar to
>/usr/share/java/packagename[-extraname]-fullversion.jar.
>
>In 2.1 Virtual machines:
> If a virtual machine has a mechanism to search the jars
> in one or more "extensions directories", it *should* use
> /usr/share/java/ext as the default such directory.
>
>In 2.2 Java compilers:
> If a Java compiler has a mechanism to search the the jars
> of one or more "extensions directories", it *should* use
> /usr/share/java/ext as the default such directory.
>
>  
>


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