> From: Jose Alberto Fernandez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 11:39 AM > > J2SDK1.2 + defines a mechanism for declaring dependencies. Which is > > actually required for servlet containers and j2ee. (i.e. the > > manifest ). > > > > Why would we want to invent our own ? > > > > JDK only defines a mechanism to indicate which other jars are need to be > loaded to find additional classes (which are located relatively to the > current jar) > > This is not dependency declarations.
There's the extension mechanism though... --DD