Re: Too many jar files

David Van Couvering wrote:

> The testing instructions include having to create this long CLASSPATH, 
> the majority of which are independent locale JAR files.  These files 
> also seem to be deliveredas independent files in the release.  
> Apologies for being a newbie, but is there any reason these locale 
> jars can't be combined into a single jar?  I checked and as far as I 
> can see all the file names are unique across all these jar files.  Is 
> this a space concern?
> Thanks,
>
> David
Ha, it so happens I just read up on some of this stuff.

There's some good info pages around, about how to do 
internationalization, and work with the java.util.ResourceBundle class.
See for instance:
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/ResourceBundles/
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/

So, yes, those files need to remain separate.

However, regarding the functionTests, most tests do *not* need the 
localization jars.
I'd have to confirm, but I *believe* that only the following tests need 
the locale jars:
    i18n/* tests (suite i18nTest)  - only need a few of the locale jars
    sysinfo  - expected output expects all locale jars to be in the 
classpath.

We do need some more internationalization tests that run the same on all 
platforms (windoze, linux, mac), but that's another issue.

Myrna