Re: [INTERFACES] "static" libraries?

On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Jeffrey Napolitano wrote:

> And the application (let's say java_app.jar) can be invoked directly by
> name?
>
> i.e.:
>
> /usr/local/bin/java_app.jar

No, that will not work. jar files are simply plain uncompressed zip files,
and are not executable. The way around this is to write a wrapper script,
that invokes java with the jar file.

The jdk utilities including javac and java are done in this way.

> > [email problems within maidstone.gov.uk has delayed this response -
> > 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 The down side to this is that if a newer version of the driver is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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> Jeffrey Napolitano
> Lowly Intern
> Software Emancipation Technology
>

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