Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joe Emenaker sent a nice idea to me which the list didn't get to > see. He suggested making a script which does autodetection of jar > files in your /usr/share/java and sets the classpath > appropriately.
Which is what you have to do anyway if you want to implement Java 2. http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/extensions/index.html There is some question whether is would be better to install class files in a standard directory or install jar files in the extensions directory. The former only searches one place; the latter has get the indexes of all the jar files. My guess is that class files is faster in the case of many extensions; searching jar files might be faster in the case of just a few extensions. On the other hand, using jar is easier to manage when there are many extensions, and uses less disk space. Also, it is "standard". So I suggest the Java policy shuld define a directory for extensions. Note this is actually two directories: a /usr/share directory for jar files and a /usr/lib directory for .so files. A Debian packaging of jdk 1.2 or 1.3 should ideally be set up so it uses the standard Java extensions directories. Tweaking some shell scripts or sym links might work. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/
