> Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter wrote: > > Check "Java Tools documentation" in Java docs (downloaded separately). > > [I'm not interested in the documentation, but in the design-rationales. > This is more out of curisity.]
I've often wondered if sun just got lazy :) I think it's just that its another layer of complexity in looking for classes/resources. I'm sure that many many java users would like is to specify a directory that contains JARs that should be searched. In fact it is pretty straight forward to write a classloader that searches all the jars in a directory. The only one problem i came up with is precedence. Take an example classpath: classes\;lib\a.jar;lib\b.jar This tells it to look in classes folder, then a.jar, then b.jar. This might seem insignificant, but it can make a real difference if a.jar and b.jar have two versions of the same file. > > > As I said before, is hard to tech Java in some kind of mail lists (as > > either in NetBeans mail lists)... > > > > First step you should do, to do what you want, is learn Java (not only > > language, but plataform too). Second is learn tools and > libraries. Third > > step is try to contribute to the projects. > > You should know this already: > > your suggestions subjecting "the process of learning java" and "the > process of contributing to projects" did not have any relevance for me. > Knowing the basics of java, ant, etc will certainly help you in developing these kind of projects, and help you to keep questions on this list OJB specific! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
