Has anyone worked up a filesystem standard for the JDK on linux? I've
seen it installed all over the place on different Linux systems. Maybe
we can come up with a standard place to put everything and make the
world safe for RPMs and .debs everywhere.
Is there a sensible Solaris standard? Anyone want to work on this with
me?
Requirements:
executables in /usr/bin
Tricky, JDK is picky about which directory things are run from.
support multiple JDKs installed simultaneously
At least JDK 1.1 and JDK 1.2, IBM vs Blackdown, ??
easy way to install new .jar and .class files
Standard classpath has to be established
easy way to install .so files for JNI extensions
tya, shujit, rx/tx, etc. Has to interact with ld.so
documentation has to be installed as well.
Maybe requirements:
peaceful coexistence with kaffe, japhar, classpath, etc.
The way I do things now is I have
/usr/local/java
/usr/local/java/jdk1.1.17_v3/
/usr/local/java/jdk1.2pre-v2/
/usr/local/java/ibm-jdk/
/usr/local/java/classes (in my CLASSPATH)
/usr/local/java/jdk, a symlink to whichever JDK I want today
/usr/local/java/jdk/bin/ in my PATH
It works OK except the symlink is a kludge and I have no good way to
install .so files.
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