>> The current test directory contains binary jar files. In fact in all the >> test directories, there are 52 binary .jar files. > I know but we need to work to remove those.
I figured that might be the response, but thought it was worth the try ;-) > > >> I added three more. I thought about generating the jar files but the >> problem I run into is that there are two test classes that use the same >> files and creating the files twice seemed to be a bit wasteful. I couldn’t >> figure out a reliable way to have one test class create the files and the >> other one just use the files. > I'm not aware of anything in jtreg that would give you the @BeforeSuite-like > support. One could use file locks to have it be setup in one place but it's > probably more trouble that it is worth. How expensive is it to create them? I don’t know, but probably not that expensive, basically for multi-release jar it’s 3 compiles and writing to a jarOutputStream(). I’ll do it.
