Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact user-help@ant.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list user@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 22554 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2003 18:48:47 -0000 Received: from hplb.hpl.hp.com (192.6.10.2) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 11 Feb 2003 18:48:47 -0000 Received: from snowy.hpl.hp.com (snowy.hpl.hp.com [15.144.94.243]) by hplb.hpl.hp.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/HP Labs Bristol relay) with ESMTP id h1BImY8v000567 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:48:34 GMT Received: from ranier (ranier.cv.hp.com [15.87.25.18]) by snowy.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (8.7.6/8.7.3 SMKit7.0) id SAA24267 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:48:32 GMT Message-ID: <005c01c2d1fe$38a9b6a0$1219570f@ranier> From: "Steve Loughran" To: "Ant Users List" References: <3E48C39D.3010503@tiscali.fr> <3E48D0DF.6030607@tiscali.fr> Subject: Re: Missing & misleading documentation, help needed on advanced Jar functionality Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:48:49 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N ----- Original Message ----- From: "webhiker" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 02:30 Subject: Re: Missing & misleading documentation, help needed on advanced Jar functionality > I'm aware of the licensing implications of packaging 3rd party jars > together, but it's the only solution I have until someone finds an > easier way to solve these kinds of dependencies. > It's not feasible to have to make a user run a Java application from the > commandline, at least not in the year 2003. webstart is the solution, I believe. > Creating and maintaining 4 billion startup scripts is not an option either. > > When o when will we see some support from Sun for nested jar files.......? about the same time CLASSPATH gets ignored, one expects. Java1.5 will probably have to include mail and activation, because they are needed for attachment support with the JAX-RPC web services stuff. So your compound jar is going to be a support problem if/when the next java version comes out.