Re: newbie needs help/advice
Re: newbie needs help/advice
- Subject: Re: newbie needs help/advice
- From: Gavin Eadie <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:05:26 -0400
At 7:54 PM -0700 6/19/05, John Watson wrote:
1. Adding external jars to the project. What is the recommended way
of doing this? I don't like the merge option (which does work for
me). Is there a way to get the darn jars to be copied to the
classpath without too much effort?
... there are several options, all of which work.
* the "merge" option -- unjars the classes and rejars them with
your classes
[I don't like this either; it binds things far too tightly.
Incorporating a bugfix in Jakarta commons.lang, for example, requires
rebuilding/redeploying your application]
* the Java extensions folder -- jars available to EVERYTHING
[I don't like this for the above reason]
* the WebObjects extension folder -- /Library/WebObjects/Extensions/
[better -- this is only used by WebObjects applications]
* make a framework
[this is my favorite. Making a framework which contains the
jar that you need has several advantages. Including that framework
in the project ensures compile time requirements are met, I can make
only the jars I want available to only the applications I want, and I
can bundle up related jars in a framework (for example, I have a
JakartaCommon framework with my favorite dozen commons jar files; I
have a MailLibrary framework that contains mail.jar, activation.jar
and ldap.jar)]
... it is noted in this thread that incorporating jars into
applications, or frameworks (including 'jar only' frameworks like I
propose) is troublesome. There is a trick to it, which I'll put in
another message.
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