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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:23:32 +1030 (CST)
From: David Bullock <dbullock@ardec.com.au>
To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Jini tool for class dependencies at compile time. (was Re: stale
 services) (fwd)
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Hi guys, 

I haven't looked at this at all, but I thought you might want to be aware of its existence, if only for the sake of comparison in the way it approaches the issue of class dependencies.

regards,
David.


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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:34:49 -0500
From: Bob Scheifler - SMI Software Development <Bob.Scheifler@east.sun.com>
To: JINI-USERS@JAVA.SUN.COM
Subject: Re: stale services

> The service i created was
> running but it appeared at Lus Browser as a stale service. I thought
> the jar file could be missing some class; and, after adding the right
> files it worked. It was a little messy to find out what the files i should
> add.
>
> Do you suggest some program to do so?

We include such a tool, ClassDep, in our release. Unfortunately, the
only documentation for it we include is the javadoc in the source:
    jini1_1/source/vob/tools/src/com/sun/jini/tool/ClassDep.java
and the uses of it in the various GNUmakefile.jars files in the
jini1_1/source/vob/jive/src/ tree. There's also a short bit I wrote
about it:
    http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9912&L=jini-users&P=R10867

> Very often i have a running service that appear on Lus Browser as stale
> service or Unknown service - I know i did something wrong but it is very
> hard to debug. In general, i suppose these messages means a file not found
> problem, but i cannot trace what file is when the codebase is a jar file
> (http://somehost:port/file.jar) rather than a directory
> (http://somehost:port/).

In JDK 1.2.x, the ClassNotFoundException unfortunately only showed the
highest level class, not the actual class that failed to be found.
However, if you switch to JDK 1.3, the ClassNotFoundException should
tell you exactly which class was missing. You can get the exception
to print out by setting -Dcom.sun.jini.reggie.proxy.debug=1 in the
browser.

- Bob

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