I wrote a tool that does just this. I've been meaning to post it on SourceForge, but if you're interested, I can send you a copy directly. It can work off its own classpath, plus whatever other places you give it to search in and it spits out whereever it finds the resource name you give it (doesn't have to be a class name, so java.lang.String is resource java/lang/String.class, plus you can search for partial resource names, such as java/lang/). Sort of like "which -a" for Java.
On May 6, 10:08 pm, tachoknight <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all- > > Okay, I've had it. I wrote some web service code to be deployed in a > JBoss 4 AS which works great. Writing the code wasn't really hard, but > figuring out which Jar provided by JBoss was; it was a lot of trial > and error by determining from the filename of the jar. Finally I got > my ant script to work and it built fine. Deploying wasn't an issue > because I knew JBoss had all the jars it needed. > > Now I've upgraded my development JBoss instance to version 5, and, > surprise! The jar files are, for the most part, different. My ant > script won't work because it's looking for jars that simply aren't > there anymore. > > I know JBoss hasn't done much more than re-arrange the code, but it > leaves me frustrated that it seems like there's no way to tell what a > jar provides other than going through them, one by one, and doing a > jar tvf on the file and pouring through the output to see if it has > the classes I need. > > Is there some sort of tool or way to say "look, I know what you need > is in this directory somewhere. Find it yourself". Of course I'm not > expecting javac to do that, but some sort of Java equivalent of ldd > that could analyze the imports and find them? I'm not even suggesting > deducing it from the code; just tell me what jar contains > javax.ejb.Stateless, etc. > > Thanks for any info, > > Tacho --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
