On Oct 4, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Suraj Acharya wrote:
On the Mac jde should be looking for Classes/classes.jar in your JVM directory (see the definition of jde-get-tools-jar in jde.el). Check that you have this file and thatsystem-type is 'darwin.
Thanks!But I'm wondering why JDE works around OS X's Java compatibility mechanism; JDK directories like:
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.4.2/Homeare set up to look to the rest of the world like an ordinary Sun JDK installation, and you can use:
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Hometo point to the system-set current JDK (though this would not work with JDE's jdk-registry mechanism).
There may have been a time when this compatibility layer was not in place (perhaps pre-10.2?) and the two checks in jde.el for 'system- type darwin' were needed, but now I think JDE should at least support users who have their JAVA_HOME set correctly on OS X. Ideally the code would be simplified by just removing the special-casing, but in order to support existing installations, the following patch works with either setting (e.g. ".../Versions/1.4.2" or ".../Versions/1.4.2/ Home") and also attempts to support non-OS X Darwin systems. (I did not test the latter.)
jde-darwin-jdk-dir.patch
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