Sounds like a lot of us have the same tool. I have mine setup as a command call sjar where I pass the text I am looking for. It then greps the output of the jar tvf command and outputs what it finds.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Alexey <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
