Name: rm29839 Date: 11/11/97


It would be nice if jar files could contain other
jar files, obviously the class loader would do
a recursive search for the requested classes

My reason for requesting this feature is simple.
Suppose you have a variety of packages and package
heirarchies, you may want to jar the whole thing
up for a product ship, or you may just want to
jar up individual heirarchies to test or use
certain packages only.

If you have 3 main packages and just allow .class
files in a jar file, then anytime any of the
maintainers of any of the 3 packages makes a
change, they'll have to jar back up the whole
tree. One jar file per package, and then one
master jar file for all three would make life a
lot nicer.
(Review ID: 19192)
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