Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Linking Jars Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:24:45 +0100 Lines: 57 Message-ID: <9k2a9eF305U1@mid.individual.net> References: <9k0vruFa01U1@mid.individual.net> <15907460.104.1323023857826.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prfi36> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net UhbWvVo1ng+zgDadDBm8NAm49m8Rf2wjt1H9STLkxILqVSJA8= Cancel-Lock: sha1:YTxfxHmUCibPjFTxO5sacN/kCwo= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <15907460.104.1323023857826.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prfi36> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10501 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, > 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