Re: Classpath question

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Den 29/07/10 22.39, Mike Cunningham skrev:
> Shouldn't this
> ADDENVVAR  ENVVAR(CLASSPATH) VALUE('/JarFiles/datatelDatabaseUtility.jar:/JarFiles/sqljdbc.jar:/JarFiles/jt400.jar') REPLACE(*YES)
>
> And this
> ADDENVVAR  ENVVAR(CLASSPATH) VALUE('/JarFiles/') REPLACE(*YES)
>
> Work exactly the same?
>
> Shouldn't the second way provide a path to all jar files in the /JarFiles directory in the IFS?
>    
No.  The classpath works with either specifying directories containing 
individual classfiles, or specifying individual jar files.

Recently, a wildcard syntax has been added to Java 6 which allows for 
specifying all files in a directory, but this means your code will not 
run under earlier versions of Java.  Also the wildcard syntax does not 
work for runnable jars which is what we use.

Would it be hard to iterate over the files in the directory, and create 
the CLASSPATH string by joining the names?