>>> >>> Please excuse my ignorance, but >>> >>> Why? >>> And what's the difference? >> >> .dylib is the standard extension used by the dynamic loader on OSX, .jnilib >> was originally used by Apples JRE specifically for JNI libraries and (I >> believe) we’ve never really supported it except to allow legacy applications >> to continue to work. We certainly no longer use it internally. For example, >> there was a time (before the OSX port was done) when it was used in JavaFX. >> When 7u6 was released and Oracle took over ownership of the OSX JRE, we >> switched everything over. >> >> There is no functional difference, the files are exactly the same except >> there’s no guarantee that .jnilib will continue to be supported. And look at >> the loading mechanism in jdk; loading a JNI lib will first attempt to load >> using the .dylib extension then fall back on .jnilib for legacy support, so >> there’s a (admittedly pretty small) performance consideration since it has >> to do extra work to load a .jnilib library. > > Thanks, David. > > So just to recap: They both are identical in content, it's just the file > extension that's different.
Yes, exactly. -DrD-
