Referenceing the tools.jar ensures that it is alwasy in sync with the rest
of the jdk. If I do a copy, I need to make sure that a new tools.jar, as
a result of a patch, is copied.
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Jonathan van Alteren wrote:
> I don't know if it is impossible to get it working the way you are trying.
> But I found that 'tools.jar' is in the MANIFEST.MF classpath of 'orion.jar'.
> I guess the classes in 'orion.jar' need some classes in 'tools.jar'
> immediately, even before loading 'application.xml'.
> That might explain why it won't work with the library path setting...
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> I guess you could go as far as editing MANIFEST.MF in the 'orion.jar'
> archive to match the 'tools.jar' in you JDK path.
> But why would you not want to put the 'tools.jar' in the Orion directory...
> (except it's size???)
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