At 10:33 PM -0400 7/4/00, Peter Donald wrote: >If I haven't missed anything this could be implemented in ant no ? Then we >would no longer have to set ant home because everything could be done via >class-loaders and this no ? (Except for rare occasions when need to change >security manager, connection factory or whatever multiple times for >different tasks).
I have now realized that I don't understand what you mean by your reference to class loaders. AFAIK, the primary purpose of the working directory is to serve as a starting point for file paths. Class loaders work a bit differently, and the default one appears to work in a system-dependant fashion. Note: there is also a java.class.path property, but it is not clear what the effects are of changing it. Perhaps someone with a copy of the Java language spec knows... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Gold | "... society is tradition and order [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) | and reverence, not a series of cheap [EMAIL PROTECTED] | bargains between selfish interests." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Poul Anderson, "Iron"
