13 Jan
2010
13 Jan
'10
11:08 a.m.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com> wrote:
[…] Another subtlety to consider later is that JAR manifests [can apparently modify the classpath for sources loaded from that JAR][1]. Not sure what this would mean at the moment.
Commenting just on this point for now: we don't need to worry about that as it is just a facility used by the JVM to make launching applications easier: when you do java -jar some.jar the manifest in some.jar (and only in some.jar) is consulted to determine the classpath, i.e. the command is equivalent to java -cp some.jar;...additional.jars... com.foo.whatever.Main Bye, Ale
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classpath_%28Java%29#Setting_the_path_in_a_Mani...