Hi Keith,
No 'apparently' to it. The 1.2 Extension Mechanism is discussed in the
JDK documentation at:
docs\guide\extensions\index.html
which can be reached by clicking on 'Extension Mechanism' from:
docs\index.html
There is also a section about it in The Java Tutorial, including the
information that this is NOT a 'rather than classpath' search:
"When the runtime environment needs to load a new class for an application,
it looks for the class in the following locations, in order:
Bootstrap classes: the runtime classes in rt.jar and internationalization
classes in i18n.jar.
Installed extensions: classes in JAR files in the lib/ext directory of the
JRE.
The class path: "
Joe Sam
Joe Sam Shirah
Autumn Software
What you don't know DOES hurt you...and your business
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-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: compiling with 2.1
>I had this problem put the servlet.jar file in the extensions of the JDK.
>
>/JDK/jre/lib/ext
>
><--- Directory. Aparantly this is a "Feature" rather than a bug. Where
the
>runtime enviroment looks in the extensions or something rather than the
>classpath. Bizarre.
>
>Keith
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