Robert, Robert DiBlasi wrote: > > hello Batikers, > > [been a while ....I know ....but I have been doing my best to promote Batik > :-) ] > > I am starting to put together a Batik section to www.svgnotebook.com > http://www.svgnotebook.com/batik > > I think the first thing I want to do is explain the jars in a little more > detail then is at: > http://xml.apache.org/batik/status.html > > I have some very simple questions.....that someone here here might be able > to help me with: > > 1) do I have to add almost all the batik jar classes in the 'lib' folder to > the classpath to be able to run a program ....like the example in : > http://xml.apache.org/batik/svgcanvas.html > > or is there a easy way to put the jars in another jar and just put the new > combined jar on the classpath? >
You could either rejar things to have a single big jar or, for an application, you could have a single small jar that references the jars it uses (see how the batik-svgbrowser.jar manifest) which, I think, is usually the best solution. > 1) What does batik.jar do? How do you use it? .........It seems to me that > batik.jar is just a self contained SVG Application....it seems to do the > same thing as batik-svgbrower.jar (I'm missing something here...I just know > it :-() > The batik.jar file was done so that people could try 'anything' in Batik using a single jar. That is, if you want to use anything in Batik and put batik.jar in your classpath, you'll be in business. This is a good way to try things out without worrying about dependancies. However, this is not what you want to have in most applications when it comes to bundling Batik in a product or project. It is likely you would only use sub-portions. The various batik-xxx.jar files are good examples of subsets that use only the right portions of Batik for a given purpose: SVG Generation, Rasterizing, Browser, etc... There is one exception: batik-bean.jar which includes everything as the IDEs we tried seem to ignore the Class-Path entry in the manifest. > 2) I am going to go through the old e-mails at: > http://koala.ilog.fr/batik/ > and try to find explainations for the different jars.....but does someone > want to give a little more detailed discussion about what the jars > do.....they keep getting added to .... > I think It would be nice to help other that might want to work with Batik > understand how the jars are set up :-) .....the batiker will enjoy to. > I hope the above answered some of your issues. Cheers, Vincent. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
