> Without jar versioning, extdirs are a fairly broken idea. If > you can get away with always have the same versions of the > same jars in your VM, it's a great idea. I found that the > concept might work in a deployment environment - *if* you > deploy a separate VM for each application - but for a > developer, it just isn't practical.
I use it all the time - occasionally I need to make changes to what's where, but very rarely. I'm sure it entirely depends on what you're developing, but as I say, I rarely find it a problem. (When it *is* a problem, it can be a nasty one to work out, admittedly.) > I would love to see Sun take this idea a bit further and > actually add versioning to jars. You mean like they already have? See http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/extensions/versioning.html I should point out I've never seen this actually *used*, but I haven't looked, either. I wonder how much notice WebStart takes of it... Jon
