Re: [tcljava-user] "source resource:/" - howto?

[Mo D. <mo...@mo...>]

Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
>
> Every top level script gets the $TCL_LIBRARY variable and calls 
> sourceProcs.tcl which does a recursive search under the TCL_LIBRARY 
> directory, locates any directory called proclib and sources each 
> procedure script in the proclib directory loading everything up into 
> the namespace.
>
> What I would really like to do is dynamically load the procedure 
> scripts as required in a "package require" type scenario.  But 
> "package require" is not supported under jacl
Package require is supported under Jacl. It is likely you are not using 
the auto_path variable in the way it should, you can add
a path with a "resource:/" prefix to the auto_path and it should be 
searched as expected.

> so I thought about using auto_mkindex which seems to be supported 
> under jacl.  It seems to work with both directories and jar files.  
> Great! 
>
> 1.    Directory.
>     *******
> wsadmin>auto_mkindex proclib
>
> then ...................
>
> set TCL_LIBRARY="directoryPath/proclib"
>
> Call jacl with the java -D option
>
> java bla bla bla "-DTCL_LIBRARY=%TCL_LIBRARY%"
>
This is not how TCL_LIBRARY should be used. In general, TCL_LIBRARY is 
where Tcl/Jacl
find its own scripts. You should not use this for your application scripts.

cheers
Mo DeJong