Re: How do others configure classpath?

1) You can put jars in the extentions directory instead of specifying them
in your classpath.  All the jar files in the extensions directory are in
your classpath.  The extensions directory is configurable as a JVM property
but I forget which on it is.  The default location is
/qibm/proddata/java400/ext (I think).  Poke around on your system a little
and you will see how it works.
2) 200+ bytes?  Sure.  That's small.  :-)  Set it with a program or a
script.  That takes all (most) the pain out of it.
3) Don't ever copy them.  Put them someplace and create symbolic links to
them.  Then there is one real file and other 'pointers' to that file.


Regards,

Richard D. Dettinger
AS/400 Java Data Access Team

"Biologists have a special word for stability -- dead"

                Larry Wall
                Open Source Developers Journal
                Issue 1, Jan  2000


Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com>@midrange.com on 03/01/2001
03:30:06 PM

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CLASSPATH is going to be the death of Java.
Every toolkit, every 3rd party .JAR file, every new version seems to
require
a separate entry in CLASSPATH.
1) Why do I ever need to specify the specific jar file (as opposed to
pointing to the directory holding it?)
2) Do you really have a CLASSPATH that's 200+ bytes long?
3) Some docs have me copying jar files.  How do you manage these "copies?"

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
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 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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