I appreciate the answers so far, but no one has really answered the question. How does java find the ext directory? Does it find it through relative paths, depend on an environment variable(like JAVA_HOME), or something else?
Thanks, James On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 00:19, Omer van der Horst Jansen wrote: > > I ask because I have a third party app and they vendor says just stick > > these jars in the /lib/ext directory and it will find them. Well, mine > > doesn't. I'm running java from /usr/java/jdk1.3.1_03/jre/bin > > I usually ignore suggestions to drop jar files into the ext directory -- invariably, >you end up with applications needing different versions of XML parser jars and the >like. Those conflicts can be pretty hard to figure out because there is no convention >to put a version number in the jar file name. It's the Java version of DLL hell. > > Just adding these jars to a "local" classpath that gets set in the startup script >for each application has worked well for me. It also makes it a lot easier to change >JVMs. > > Omer > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
