James Deegan wrote:
Vadim,
Belated but sincere thanks to you for helping me get Xindice 1.1b3 running! (I sent
e-mail 1/20 subject "Problem Initializing Xindice.") Your instructions were
precise and took care not to berate the ignorance of a newbie such as myself.
I do have another question: As my projects in Java grow in number and size,
I'm finding it difficult to manage JARs, especially in a Windows environment.
As you explained, Tomcat ignores the CLASSPATH. But for applications that
require JARs in the CLASSPATH, and that may need to run concurrently, can batch
file(s) prevent JARs logjams and/or running out of environment space? I've
maxed out the latter in Windows/DOS; is this also a problem for Linux, Solaris,
et al.? Putting required JARs in the %JAVA_HOME%/jre/lib/extcan folder is a
workaround, but can you recommend a better, possibly programmatic, solution to
this problem?
Highest Regards,
Jim Deegan
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Jim,
I've found that managing classpaths, potentially complex classpaths
even, is manageable using ant. I used to keep my classpaths in my
.cshrc file, but now I do everything Java-related in ant's build.xml
files. Well, everything except mention in .cshrc where the binaries
for Java are.
Becoming an expert in ant will solve a lot of development and
installation problems in a platform-independent manner. I highly
recommend it.
Murray
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Murray Altheim http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK .
"At the Fresno event, even some of the handpicked guests expressed
skepticism about the state selling $15 billion in bonds to balance
the budget. A few said the state could look harder for more cuts
to the government bureaucracy -- but nevertheless said they would
defer to Schwarzenegger's judgment for now."
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Defer to Arnold's judgment?!
