[Commons] Component Packaging Options

["Timko, Cheryl A." <ch...@merck.com>]

All,

I was hoping someone else had experienced this dilemma using the Jakarta
Commons components...

I have created a company-wide shared component which utilizes the Digester
and DBCP component.  Both the Digester and DBCP  components are dependent on
other Jakarta Common components.

Since I tested and validated my shared component with the specific versions
of the Jakarta Commons components, I want to package these Jakarta Common
versions with my component (I do not want other versions to be used).

If I package my shared component into a jar file that contains the Jakarta
Commons jars, is the only way to load classes contained in the Jakarta
Commons jars via a custom class loader or is there any other way, like using
the JAR Class-Path (I thought this option was only used for applications
with a main())?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

> Cheryl Timko
> USHH IS Application Architecture
> * WP97-A315
> * 215-652-8822   
> * cheryl_timko@merck.com
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Re: [Commons] Component Packaging Options

[Paul Libbrecht <pa...@activemath.org>]

I think the answer is yes and also that is not such a hard thing (both 
are guesses).
As of the classpath-adjustments, there are indeed some deployment 
schemes where it's unpredictable (servlets for example) but others are 
(for example applet tags, and, I think, WebStart things).
I wonder wether forehead (a project at werken.com) wouldn't provide you 
the needed easy to configure class-loader.

Paul

On Vendredi, mai 9, 2003, at 14:21 Europe/Paris, Timko, Cheryl A. wrote:
> If I package my shared component into a jar file that contains the 
> Jakarta
> Commons jars, is the only way to load classes contained in the Jakarta
> Commons jars via a custom class loader or is there any other way, like 
> using
> the JAR Class-Path (I thought this option was only used for 
> applications
> with a main())?