Re: [ jEdit-users ] RE: JCompile Plugin

[mike d. <md...@st...>]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Giglio, James wrote:
> That's exactly the error message I got; the suggestion to copy
> tools.jar into jdk1.2/lib solved the problem. Now can somebody explain
> in words of one syllable _why_ this worked? Please hurry; I'm a lot
> older than 16, and losing IQ points by the hour.

placing a JAR file in jre/lib/ext turns it into an "installed extension"
in Java2 parlance. for all the gory details, check out
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/extensions/extensions.html

-md