Re: Using mandatory libraries (custom class loading vs. expanding libraries)
On Jun 28, 7:48 am, Karsten Wutzke <kwut...@web.de> wrote:
On 28 Jun., 16:08, Thomas Fritsch <i.dont.like.s...@invalid.com> wrote:
Karsten Wutzke schrieb:
The final MANIFEST.MF is:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.7.0
Created-By: 1.5.0_11-b03 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Main-Class: am.Main
Class-Path: lib/bcel-5.2.jar lib/forms-1.1.0.jar
....
Another thing:
When launching the jar (anywhere) I print the Java System property
"java.class.path". It CONSTANTLY only has exactly ONE entry, namely
the name of the launched JAR file. This means, the manifest, no matter
what is written in the Class-Path: ... line has absolutely no effect.
Why aren't the local ./lib/*.jar files found as specified by the
manifest Class-Path entries though they exist?
How are you launching the program?
$ java -cp yourMain.jar main.class.Name
or
$ java -jar yourMain.jar
I believe (possibly incorrectly, I haven't had classpath problems in a
long time) that only the latter will use the Class-Path: entries from
the yourMain.jar manifest. I know for a fact that the latter will
ignore other classpath entries (eg. from the CLASSPATH env var, or the
command line).
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