A bit late now for additional functionaility?

If jakarta-avalon-phoenix-bin.jar (which does not yet exist) were executable, 
it could 

1a) extract itself to jakarta-avalon-phoenix-bin (in the current) dir
1b) extract itself to a -d specified parameter
2) if -f (force) were specified, could overwrite the contents of that dir 
instead of issue an
error

I know this only saves one use of "jar -xf jakarta-avalon-phoenix-bin.jar" 
after a mkdir, but it
would be quite neat.  Especially when re-used by projects that are Avalon 
dependant, to ship
avalon/phoenix with one or more sar files pre-installed.  Yes, I know the idea 
is to drop sars
into the apps dir of a pre-installed Avalon, but until Avalon gets the 
recognition that say Ant
and Tomcat have, it's going to be a hard time convincing people that they need 
to download two
things to test a fancy product (as well as a convoluted instruction list).

To take it one stage further.. the installer (after installation) could invoke 
engine.Main to
kickoff Avalon-phoenix.  To goal being that the jar would be double click 
installable/runnable for
the armchair heros of this world.

Anyway, I have half written it (a clone of Main), but figure it may be 
unpopular, so am seeking
opinion.

Thoughts?

Regards,

- Paul H

____________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk
or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to