Re: Starting off with POI/HSSF

Joe Sam,
Thanks for pointing that out. I actually didn't even know that. I
don't get a chance to use Java 6 very often unless I'm writing a piece
for the desktop. Always wondered why they didn't do that in the
beginning. I guess I could see some people loading ALL JAR's into one
directory and the would probably eat some memory :-).
--
James R. Perkins



On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 08:17, Joe Sam Shirah <joe_sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

   Hi James,

One common misunderstanding, I've had it too, is that if you
give a generic path to a directory containing libraries (JAR's)
that each one will be loaded in the classpath. You have to
explicitly indicate which JAR's you want in your classpath.

   This has changed in Java 6, although there can still be bugaboos.  The
extension mechanism has also been, um, extended.  See "Understanding class
path wildcards" at:

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/windows/classpath.html


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