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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by Gerd Wütherich <ge...@gerd-wuetherich.de> on 2006/01/13 20:35:13 UTC

How to access an inner jar file that resides in a outer jar?

Hi,
 
is there any possibility to access an inner jar file that resides in a
outer jar while using an ant path structure? 
 
Short example:
 
    <javac srcdir="${basedir}/source" destdir="${basedir}/classes">
      <classpath>
        <pathelement path="${basedir}/lib/outer.jar!inner.jar" />
      </classpath>
    </javac>
    
I did not find any information about it, so i would love to get further
information if this is possible and how it may works!
 
Thanks,
Gerd

Re: How to access an inner jar file that resides in a outer jar?

Posted by "Alexey N. Solofnenko" <a....@mdl.com>.
Java itself has this limitation. I will have to unjar it first.

- Alexey.

Gerd Wütherich wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> is there any possibility to access an inner jar file that resides in a
> outer jar while using an ant path structure? 
>  
> Short example:
>  
>     <javac srcdir="${basedir}/source" destdir="${basedir}/classes">
>       <classpath>
>         <pathelement path="${basedir}/lib/outer.jar!inner.jar" />
>       </classpath>
>     </javac>
>     
> I did not find any information about it, so i would love to get further
> information if this is possible and how it may works!
>  
> Thanks,
> Gerd
>
>   

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Re: How to access an inner jar file that resides in a outer jar?

Posted by Clifton Craig <cc...@gbg.com>.
On Friday 13 January 2006 2:35 pm, Gerd Wütherich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there any possibility to access an inner jar file that resides in a
> outer jar while using an ant path structure?
>
> Short example:
>
>     <javac srcdir="${basedir}/source" destdir="${basedir}/classes">
>       <classpath>
>         <pathelement path="${basedir}/lib/outer.jar!inner.jar" />
>       </classpath>
>     </javac>
>
> I did not find any information about it, so i would love to get further
> information if this is possible and how it may works!
>
> Thanks,
> Gerd

Yes, unjar it especially for reference on a compiler classpath. It is a build 
step anyway so unjarring should not be impractical. If you wanted to 
reference nested jars on the classpath at runtime there is a Onejar project 
capable of handling the task.

-- 
Clifton C. Craig, Software Engineer
Intelligent Computer Systems -  A Division of GBG
ccc@icsaward.com
ccraig@gbg.com

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