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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:57:27 +0100
Subject: Re: New code for APR-UTIL...
From: "Pier P. Fumagalli" <pier@betaversion.org>
To: <rbb@covalent.net>, <dev@apr.apache.org>
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And too bad, but impossible... Under OS/X, to load the library I need to
call NSAddModule, as the JVM lib is not linked as a MH_BUNDLE (shit). So we
can't really load the VM in any environment using APR (under OS/X you use
NSLinkModule)...

And on Linux, the libjvm.so file MUST be in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable (as
dlopen fails miserably if it's not there).

Shit I should think twice before posting :)

I'll keep the implementation (right now) as clean and as APR-like as
possible (reusing stuff where I can), and when this will be hopefully fixed
in OS/X 10.1 (coming in September), we could plan an integration...

Basically, what I wanted to do, was to, given a JAVA_HOME environment
variable, call something like apr_java_load(...) which would return a
pointer to a JNIEnv... What I wanted to do was to have an easier invocation
mechanism to discover and construct the JVM...

The code is right now non-APRized in the jakarta-tomcat-4.0/service
repository, but since I'm rewriting it, I wanted to make it more APR
friendly.

    Pier

Ryan Bloom at rbb@covalent.net wrote:
> 
> ++1!  That would be VERY cool!
> 
> Ryan
> 
> On Wednesday 25 July 2001 16:10, Pier P. Fumagalli wrote:
>> Anyone interested in having some code to tie up a Java VM to APR...
>> I was thinking about writing a new piece of APR-UTIL. It would be cool to
>> have (I'm writing a JNI plugin for Tomcat-4.0, and use APR to use the DSO
>> JVM dll)...
>> 
>>     Pier