[fedora-java] extension directories

Anthony Green green at redhat.com
Sun Jan 15 22:20:43 UTC 2006


I have some questions regarding extension directories...

gcj currently looks in /usr/share/java/ext for extensions, which isn't
compatible with JPackage.  In fact, this directory doesn't exist in FC.

In JPackage-land, it looks like each JRE will have their own extensions
directory under $JAVA_HOME/lib/ext, and then there's the JPackage
maintained one at /usr/share/java-ext.

The BouncyCastle RPM installs JRE versioned .jar files in directories
under /usr/share/java-ext.

Should java-gcj-compat set gij's java.ext.dirs to
$JAVA_HOME/lib/ext:/usr/share/java-ext ?

How do the proprietary JRE's pick up the contents
of /usr/share/java-ext?

How are any of JREs supposed to find the JPackage bouncycastle jar
files? 

Thanks!

AG





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