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On 12/4/2011 12:25 PM, Tom Anderson wrote:

> The problem is that the Class-Path header expresses the dependency as a
> URL; a direct path that can be resolved in the filesystem.


I thought class path entries in the manifest file were always relative 
to the location of the containing Jar file?  I guess you could specify 
an absolute path, but I don't think it's required.

I didn't check the docs, but that's afaik.