Re: [INTERFACES] "static" libraries?

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peter]

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Dallas Hockley wrote:

> Jeffrey Napolitano wrote:
> >
> > I have a Java application which uses JDBC, and it is going to put on a
> > few different machines using postgres and postgres's JDBC driver. My
> > question is this: Is there a method of *including* the JDBC driver into
> > the Java application? An equivalent to statically linking a library in
>
>
> This can be done by "unjarring" the postgresql jdbc driver jar in the
> base class directory of your app/let and then jar'ring the entire
> distribution into one file. The relative class resolution must be
> correct, and it will work....

It will work that way.

The down side to this is that if a newer version of the driver is
released, then you have to rebuild your application jar file.

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