[fedora-java] tomcat5

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:17 -0500, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 09:20 -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
>>On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:24 -0500, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
>>> I've been seeing that message too.  First of all, why does the urls
>>> field of VMClassLoader not print *all* jars in the extensions directory?
>>> Is this a libgcj bug? 
>>
>>It certainly looks that way.
>>
>>>  The other annoying thing is the difference
>>> between /usr/share/java-ext, /usr/lib/java-ext and /usr/share/java/ext.
>>> We either need to change the JPackage standard to point
>>> to /usr/share/java/ext or we need to hard-code /usr/share/java-ext
>>> and /usr/lib/java-ext into libgcj as extensions directories.  Defining
>>> java.ext.dirs in all the wrapper scripts is turning out to be quite
>>> fragile.  In this case the mx4j jar probably installs
>>> in /usr/share/java-ext and it doesn't look like java.ext.dirs is getting
>>> set properly (to /usr/share/java-ext:/usr/lib/java-ext) for you.
>>
>>I don't think that's really the problem, since mx4j doesn't install in
>>any extensions directory.  It probably should for gcj at least, since
>>it's included in Sun's rt.jar.
>>
>>But it seems that gcj should have it's own extension directory. 
>>
>
>That's a good idea.  Then we wouldn't have all these problems associated
>with trying to match Sun's JAR layouts (e.g. classpathx-mail embedding
>an inetlib implementation, ugh).  We could just create jar file symlinks
>(mostly to libgcj.jar) for programs that look for the actual jars.
>Everything else they needed (e.g. providers) would transparently be
>included on CLASSPATH by way of the gcj extensions directory.  In fact,
>we could just keep using /usr/share/java/ext for that purpose.  What are
>the ramifications of putting jars in the extension directories?
>

I guess there's a problem with this from the JPackage-purity
perspective.  Should the JPackage conventions mandate putting jar files
in /usr/share/java/ext, where they're necessary for gcj inter-operation?

Tom