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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <tor.wilhelmsen@ergo.no> wrote:
> "Joi Ellis [TeamB]" <joi@aravox.com> writes:

>> Ok, now I'm confused.  That page is talking about JDK extensions.
>> Extensions are packaged in a single jar for easy installation and
>> security.  There's nothing in there at all about java packages.

> Java packages that represent "extensions"/libraries your app depends
> on (say, classes12.zip for Oracle JDBC) should be addressed via
> "Class-Path" for purposes of allowing "java -jar" type invocation,
> which doesn't use -classpath or the env. variable CLASSPATH.

> The alternatives are either to ship the packages as part of the JAR
> file (which is akin to static linking in C and perhaps against the
> license for the library) or place the jars in the lib/ext directory of
> the JRE.

> This is relevant to how the JBuilder Archive Builder wizard constructs
> the manifest file for libraries with "Exclude all" option. You can
> tell it to create the manifest into the project, edit that by hand and
> change the archive node to use the edited manifest, though.

Okay.  I was using the term 'package' strictly in the java namespace sense.


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