[xep-support] XEP class loading

[Werner Donné]

This is how it works:
   http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/extensions/spec.html#bundled

It is part of the J2SE extension mechanism specification and should therefore
be independent of the JVM. It was introduced in JDK1.2.

Werner.

Dawid Weiss wrote:
> Really?  I  think  they  are  relative to the JAR where they are declared -
> I  used  it numerous times with my code and it all worked well (but I never
> checked this with other JVM's but SUN's):
> 
> java -jar ..\bubu\myjar.jar
> 
> load  all  the  (relative)  jar  dependencies  from ..\bubu even though the
> currect  directory  remains  to  be  '.'
> 
> Dawid
> 
> 
>>>So, in fact the xep35_server.jar should list the other jars in its manifest
>>>file. To establish this you could do an experiment in which you add such a
>>>manifest file to the XEP jar. The real solution is, of course, that the
>>>manifest file is in one the future releases of XEP.
>>>
> 
> 
> DT> A real problem with the real solution is that it is not possible to use
> DT> relative paths in jar dependencies. That is, they are not relative
> DT> to the jar they are specified in, but to the current directory.
> 
> DT> Thus, the only good option remains repackaging the .jar.
> 
> DT> David
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