Re: [Joelib-help] Use installed JOELib

[Andreas M. <ma...@in...>]

Hi Joerg,

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:49:42PM +0200, Joerg K. Wegner wrote:
> 1. append all required *.jar files to the CLASSPATH environment (not 
> recommended)

Not knowing the setup of potential users I could only do this on my own system.
=> I won't do it.

> 2. use ant and catch all *.jar files to build a 'local' classpath for 
> your program

sounds good. Does this mean to create an .xml file having a target that launches my .class file
provided with the information where it can find the bib?
Can I do this with something like:

...
<classpath>
    <fileset dir="${lib}">
        <include name="**/*.jar" />
    </fileset>
</classpath>
...

Of course, additionally I would have to search the joelib-tree recursively to catch all jars. Do you know a good knowledge resource on the web about ant?

> 3. use shell/batch script to build a 'local' classpath for your program 
> (you can use one of JOELib's as base). But under windows this is not a 
> good solution, because all dependencies are hard-coded.
> So i recommend ant or shell-scripts using cygwin.

Don't know exactly what this means. What do you mean by "'local' classpath"?
You don't speak of the environment variable $CLASSPATH, do you?

Greets,
Andreas