> Thanks for the reply Thomas.
You are very welcome. I am happy to get feedback. In turn I try to help if I can...
> Do you have any idea why Java needs to
> have the two jdk ext directories
So far I have not found information about <jdk home>\lib\ext. My assumption is that this path might be used by the actual development tools, i.e. javac, jar or the like. But then again, so far I have no proof of this.
A nice excercise might be to create a jar containing some test class and put it in that directory. Then I could try to investigate when (and by whom) this test class is seen or found.
> When I 'install' a new jar, which ext directory
> should I use? At the moment i duplicate
> everything, just in case
Based on personal experience, and taking into account the official documentation, my suggestion is to use jdk1.5.0_01\jre\lib\ext. Putting them in both directories should not be neccessary.
Regards
Thomas |
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