On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:40:32 +0100 Jochen Staerk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I always thought that adding the class path to your manifest would be > > sufficient and has the same effect than using the cp-commandline switch > > but I could be completely mistaken. > > > > I thought a MANIFEST like this would work: > > > > ------------------8<------------------ > > Manifest-Version: 1.0 > > Main-Class: at/bestsolution/oeush/members/MembersAdmin > > Class-Path: lib/a.jar /usr/lib/openoffice/program/classes/officebean.jar > > ... > > 1) I'm not sure I'm right either, today was the first time I learned > about how to add classpaths to manifests but > 2) AFAIK manifest-classpaths can be relative and CLASSPATHs are > absolute. And with a manifest very similar to yours (adding jurt and > juh.jar and stuff) I get a libofficebean.so not-found-exception. > > bye, > Jochen > Hi Jochen, normally if you have the oo-jars (all from oo-home/program/classes) in your classpath (manifest or CLASSPATH or with the -cp switch) the libraries are found. There is a helüper-class, which load the native-libraries in the parent-directory of officebean.jar (if the library is not in LD_LIBRARY_PATH or %PATH% on Windows). If you want to deploy your application together with the oo-jars (in a relative subdirectory) the native-libraries cannot be found. If I understand you correct and you want to deploy your application (some mails above on this list) on different systems and OS. You have to find a way to set the correct-classpath and native-ölibrary-path on the target system. You can use start-scripts (run.bat run.sh) which create a classpath and launch your application with java -cüüp mypath my.package.Main. But the users have to set the OO-path by hand before. In this case you cannot use a selfstarting jar. You can use a classloader to load your application. There you can use a selfstarting jar (double-click on Windows). There are some launcher-projects available like: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/launcher/ You can develop your own Launcher and add the oo-jars from the target-system to your application. Example: create a subdirectory 'lib' of your application and add there all your application-jars. In the parent-directory place the launcher-class or self-starting jar like(untested): import java.io.*; import java.net.*; import java.util.*; public class Launcher{ public Launcher(){ } public static void main(String[] args){ Launcher l = new Launcher(); l.launchApplication(args); } public launchApplication(String[] args){ ArrayList urls = new ArrayList(); //add your application jars addJars(urls,"lib"); //get now the path of the OO-installation //from a property-file, dialog or scan the filesystem String oopath = get...(); //add all to the classpath addJars(urls,oopath); //create URL[] from the urls-List URL[] classpath ... URLClassLoader loader = new URLClassLoader(classpath); //now load your application Main-class and start this try{ Class clazz = loader.loadClass("my.Main"); //get the main-method Class[] params = new Class[1]; params[0] = args.getClass(); Method m = clazz.getDeclaredMethod("main",params); //prepare the args Object[] methodparams = new Object[1]; //the args from the commandline methodparams[0] = args; //lauch the application m.invoke(null,methodparams); }catch(Exception e){ //handle this } } private void addJars(List list,String dir){ File f = new File(dir); if(f.isDirectory()){ File[] jars = f.listFiles(); for(int i=0;i<jars.length;i++){ if(jars[i].getName().toLowerCase().endsWith(".jar")){ try{ list.add(jars[i].toURI().toURL(); }catch(Excpetion e){ //handle this } } } } } } This will launch your application with custom-classloader, which puts the oo-jars to his classpath. On the windows-platform you will get problems if the oo-home/program directory is not int the %PATH%. You can preload the native-libs, but you need the right order of the libs and this can simple changed by newer OO-releases. I hope this can help. Best Regards, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
