Re: How do others configure classpath?

With JDK1.3, ( 1.2 too?) people don’t need  to change CLASSPATH. Just copy
jar files to /installdir/jre/lib/ext directory and java/javac etc. utilities
will find them.

And there is /installdir/jre/classes directory for classes!

Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com>
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com <JAVA400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:47 PM
Subject: How do others configure classpath?


>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
>"Nothing is so firmly believed as
> that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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