> A screen scraper would be acceptable. This has been discussed but by the
> time we finally determined that I had lost interest. 

I am an advocate of whatever steps we can take to make the end-user's
life easier, but I wanted to make an observation about that idea.

I don't believe it will be as easily solved using programmatic tools. For
example, I downloaded javamail-1_3_3_01.zip, and it contained:
javamail-1.3.3_01/lib/mailapi.jar
javamail-1.3.3_01/lib/imap.jar
javamail-1.3.3_01/lib/smtp.jar
javamail-1.3.3_01/lib/pop3.jar
javamail-1.3.3_01/mail.jar

Now do we just say every jar inside the outer package is extracted,
renamed to $outer_version and installed in the local repo?

What about JWSDP, which is distributed in an installshield shar and
contains TONS of sub-jars?

> Do you know of anything that we can use to easily make screen scapers?

That said, to answer your question I've had great success using a
combination of jtidy and nekohtml for that very purpose. A few XSLT
scripts and the data flies right out.

  My USD$0.02,
  -- /v\atthew

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