Name: gm110360 Date: 04/03/2003


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
The Class-Path manifest file option has a length limit of 512 bytes for its value. Cannot specify complete list of Jars for our application. Cannot take advantage of Jar indexing feature because of this limitation.

JUSTIFICATION :
The 512 byte limitation is preventing our application from taking full advantage from the Jar indexing feature. We have over 60 Jars that need to be indexed to enhance the download process. There also seems to be no reason to even have such limitation.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
Jar utility to dynamically allocate space for any (at least 2K) size for the Class-Path manifest option value.
The "Line too long" Exception is thrown.

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
No work around, except to rename our jar files with a short meanigless names
(Review ID: 183364)
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