After suggestions from Ola I extended the classloaded and it now works with package dependencies.
How it works: Every package has a file in /etc/debian-classloader/ with the following format: classpath = /usr/share/java/xxxxx.jar ... depends = package1 package2 .... A class is started with: deb-java <package> <classname> The classpath is the minimum needed, which avoids class and resource conflicts between unrelated packages. Limitations: no recommends, suggests etc only depends. Because of that it only emmits a warning if a package is not found. Package (with examples) and sources at: http://anarxia.dyndns.org:2180/debian/pool/ Nicos
