[Rails-devel] Building a Jar file for 1.0.3

[Brett L. <wak...@gm...>]

I've figured out how to build a working JAR for the next release.

However, there's a problem.

Out of the box, java doesn't handle JARs inside a JAR.  So, our
additional libraries must be kept outside of the rails JAR in order for
rails to locate the jars.

There are a couple of options for creating standalone JARs:
http://classworlds.codehaus.org/uberjar.html

We can either roll our own, or look at using a build system like Ant or
Maven to build our Jar.

Or, we can work on improving loading external jars, and simply ship a
zipfile or tarball that includes launcher scripts.


Does anyone have a preference for which direction to go?


 ---Brett.


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