Re: How do others configure classpath? - /Qibm/ProdData/Java400/ext directory question

There are more than a dozen jar and zip files in my
/Qibm/ProdData/Java400/ext directory but only 4 of them showed up in the JVM
classpath. I used the API "System.getProperty("java.class.path")"   to
retrieve the CLASSPATH in my java program and servlets.

This lists all jar/zip files retrieved from a java program running in
Qshell:

/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/jdk118/lib/jdkptf118.zip
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/jdk118/lib/classes.zip
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/ext/IBMmisc.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/ext/db2_classes.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/ext/jssl.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/ext/ibmjssl.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/jt400ntv.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/
/qibm/proddata/http/public/jt400/lib/jt400.zip (this came from ENVVAR
CLASSPATH)

This lists all jar/zip files retrieved from a servlet running in WAS 2.03

/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/jdk118/lib/jdkptf118.zip
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/jdk118/lib/classes.zip
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/ext/IBMmisc.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/ext/db2_classes.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/ext/jssl.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/ext/ibmjssl.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/jt400ntv.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/
/qibm/proddata/http/public/jt400/lib/jt400.zip   (this came from ENVVAR
CLASSPATH)
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/lib
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/lib/databeans.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/lib/ejsclientruntime.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/lib/ibmjndi.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/lib/ibmwebas.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/lib/jndi.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/lib/jsdk.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/lib/jst.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/lib/lotusxsl.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/lib/wasfix1.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/lib/webtlsrn.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/lib/x509v1.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/lib/xml4j.jar
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/web/admin/classes
/QIBM/ProdData/IBMWebAS/web/admin/classes/seadmin.jar

Bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Dettinger <cujo@us.ibm.com>
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com <JAVA400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, March 01, 2001 4:22 PM
Subject: 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
>
>Please respond to JAVA400-L@midrange.com
>
>Sent by:  owner-java400-l@midrange.com
>
>
>To:   JAVA400-L@midrange.com
>cc:
>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
>Visit the Midrange archives at http://www.midrange.com
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