Adding JARPATH

Name: js151677 Date: 08/13/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
When a Java application needs many jar files, one has to put these jar files into CLASSPATH.

JUSTIFICATION :
It is not convenient to put many jar files into CLASSPATH.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Using JARPATH (either an option or an environmental variable), one can specify the search paths for jar files. All jar files in the paths specified in the JARPATH will be automatically included in the CLASSPATH.

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For example, if I have two jar files a.jar, b.jar in the path /home, then I will have to invoke my application by
java -classpath /home/a.jar:/home/b.jar MyApp

If there is a jarpath option, then I can
jar -jarpath /home MyApp

When there are many jar files, this option would be very handy.

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(Incident Review ID: 296821)
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