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Jchart.com <paul@jchart.com> wrote:

> The error I get is:
> bad path:
> D:\_psr\aepco\psrhome\class\com\sun\java\swing\plaf\metal\MetalLookAndFeel.class
> 
> With a little investigation, using jar -tf [myjarfile].jar I found that
> com\sun\java\swing\plaf\metal\MetalLookAndFeel.class was not included in
> the archive created by the wizzard.
> 
> What's up with that????  Has this most elementry task been tested???

The reason that it is not included is that there is no reference to the 
class in any of the Java code in your application, or in the library 
classes that it does reference.

Java allows programs to dynamically load class files, generating the 
names of the classes on the fly.  So it is impossible for any tool such 
as the Deployment Wizard to detect every class that will be needed at run 
time.

Swing uses such techniques to load the look-and-feel classes, so the 
Deployment Wizard is unable to figure out that the MetalLookAndFeel class 
is needed.

However, Borland could add options to the Deployment Wizard that deals 
with that specific case.  Perhaps they could a few checkboxes for the 
various Swing look-and-feels.  It would make life easier for those who 
use the Deployment Wizard (a group of which I am not a member).

-- 
Regards,

John P. McGrath
<mcgrath@enter.net>
<jpm@nscs.fast.net>