Re: [Jython-users] Importing a collection of jar files

[Ype K. <yk...@xs...>]

Michel,

>Hi!
>
>I have a handful of .jar files that contain classes I'm interested in
>using from Jython.  They reside in a directory called 'C:\foo'.  The
>only .jar file I'm interested in is called ldap.jar, but there are
>also a half-dozen .jar files that ldap.jar depends on.
>
>So my question is, how can I import the classes from ldap.jar?  I
>tried simply running jython from the folder that contained all the
>..jar files but 'import ldap' didn't fly.  I tried adding the .jar
>files to the -classpath and the same import statement failed again.
>I'm sure this is a simple thing and I'm just not waving the dead
>chicken in quite the right way.

You don't need to import the jar itself.
For example with classes.zip on the class path you can

import java # just another package in classes.zip

Would that be simple enough?
Ype

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