> But what I still don't understand is, why can't I just give the directory > with the jars files to the CLASSPATH, > instead I have to put everey single jar-file on to it. Is this normal for > Java? All classpaths, before I customized them, never had a directly > jar-file, but only directories. When I also do it that way, java doesn't > find the classes :-( > So I did it the long way and put an entry for each jar on the CLASSPATH
Any path in the classpath is either a jar or a directory. Each path is searched for class files. In a sense, the class loader treats a jar as a directory. See http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/tooldocs/windows/classpath.html for classpath info. Scott Nichol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
