Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:15:38 +0000 From: Rasputin <rasputin@submonkey.net> To: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> Cc: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal for bsd.java.mk Message-ID: <20011210141538.A2711@shikima.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20011210060318.A37088@johncoop.MSHOME>; from john_m_cooper@yahoo.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:03:18AM -0800 References: <20011210113932.L99945-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> <20011210060318.A37088@johncoop.MSHOME>
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* John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> [011210 14:10]:
>
> On 2001.12.10 02:49 Herve Quiroz wrote:
> > Also I
> > don't understand the meaning of the JAVA_LIB variable. Is this really
> > needed by any port so far ? It would be needed if using any third
> > party
> > compiler such as jikes but in that case the user would have
> > (hopefully)
> > set the JIKESPATH. Anyway I think there should be an unified way to
> > deal
> > with JAVA_LIB/JIKESPATH etc so maybe the port being installed should
> > handle this additional CLASSPATH. This way, installing any lib would
> > also
> > mean its jar would be added in the classpath automatically.
> >
>
> For me, that's the object of JAVA_LIB. If I know the path to the core
> Java libraries and the version of the JDK/JRE, I can deduce
> ${JAVA_LIB}/classes.zip for 1.1.x and ${JAVA_LIB}/tools.jar for Java2.
> Moreover, if it's Java2, I can sidestep a CLASSPATH extension by
> sticking the new JAR file in the ext/ portion of the Java2 tree.
Are you sure you want to do that kind of thing automatically?
I'm thinking of a lot of RMI apps where clasees are expected to be loaded
over the network automatically by JVMs - having them in your CLASSPATH
for development is necessary, but can make testing confusing
when you distribute them and wonder why they can't find classes..
Jini in particular is a pig for this.
Not that I can think of a better way or anything...
--
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