Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.java.programmer > #10501

Re: Linking Jars

Show key headers only | View raw

On 12/04/2011 07:37 PM, Lew wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Roedy Green wrote:
>>> Roedy Green wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said
>>> :
>>>> Are there any other options?
>>>
>>> for example, is there something you can put in the main jar that
>>> points to the second?
>>
>> Exactly.  And it would be my first choice.
>>
>> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#Main%20Attributes
>
> I assume your point in using a 1.4 version of the docs is to indicate
> how long this information has been documented in the standard
> reference.

Actually it was a tad different: I just grabbed the first ref my 
favorite search engine turned up - convinced that the classpath 
attribute didn't change. :-)

> Amazing what the documentation can reveal if one were *ACTUALLY TO
> READ IT*.

:-)

> I do think one should link to current versions of the docs most of
> the time, though.  For example,
> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/jar/downman.html>

Right.

> No matter how long you've been programming in Java, the tutorials are
> valuable and for such elementary questions make a great starting
> point.
>
> For the "main attributes" of the JAR manifest that you linked, that
> current version seems to be
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jar/jar.html#Main%20Attributes

Also a good point of reference.

>  I encourage everyone to read the documentation.
>
> Repeatedly.  Reviewing the basics is necessary.

+1

Today everybody seems to be in a rush all the time - no wonder that 
software often turns bad...  (Which just reminds me of a funny cartoon 
of the great Gary Larson where veggies "turn bad" in the fridge - with a 
pair of forks as weapons.) ;-)

Kind regards

	robert

Back to comp.lang.java.programmer | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Linking Jars Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-03 19:53 -0800
  Re: Linking Jars Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-03 20:00 -0800
    Re: Linking Jars Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-04 11:20 +0100
      Re: Linking Jars Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-04 10:37 -0800
        Re: Linking Jars Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-04 23:24 +0100
        Re: Linking Jars Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-05 04:20 -0800
          Re: Linking Jars ilAn <idonot@wantspam.net> - 2011-12-05 21:49 +0200
            Re: Linking Jars Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-06 22:11 +0000
          Re: Linking Jars Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-05 22:11 -0500
          OT: Was Re: Linking Jars RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@spamweary.invalid> - 2011-12-07 15:11 +0000
      Re: Linking Jars Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-04 20:25 +0000
        Re: Linking Jars markspace <-@.> - 2011-12-04 13:43 -0800
          Re: Linking Jars Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-06 22:06 +0000
  Re: Linking Jars Ronny Schütz <usenet.r96@gishpuppy.com> - 2011-12-04 23:18 +0100

csiph-web