Re: [Rails-devel] Building a Jar file for 1.0.3

[Mirko B. <er...@ho...>]

Hi,

I think the most common solution for this is for the release to be a zip/tar
file with rails jar and startup scripts  in bin but also a lib directory
that contains 3rd party jars. In my opinion that is a good way to deploy a
java app. 

/Mirko

-----Original Message-----
From: rai...@li...
[mailto:rai...@li...] On Behalf Of Brett Lentz
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:54 PM
To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
Subject: [Rails-devel] Building a Jar file for 1.0.3

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.


One good thing about music,
Well, it helps you feel no pain.
So hit me with music;
Hit me with music now.
		-- Bob Marley, "Trenchtown Rock"


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