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Re: Found this on JGuru regarding classpath and mail.jar

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From: R.F. Pels
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 23:38
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Roy McBrayer wrote:

> I found this statement on JGuru regarding the mail.jar file.
> 
> "Here's something of note that we found while coming up with the solution.
> The Java Mail package has a manifest as well as other textual data at the
> root of the jar package it is deployed in. If you try to include the Mail
> package in your own application package it will fail because your package
> will have its own manifest, not the one the JavaMail needs.

Because that textual data needs to be added EXPLICITLY by you when creating 
a jar that also contains JAF and JavaMail jar-content. It CAN be done, at 
least, I HAVE done it and it WORKS. 

> Therefore, you MUST always use the mail API in your classpath, never as
> part of your own package.

This is a replay of what Sun tells you in the JavaMail documentation. But 
it can be circumvented.

--

Ruurd
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