RE: Dependant Libs

I'm not sure if this will help in your case, but ANT has builtin tasks that 
support the concept of filters.  It allows you to copy a single input file, and 
selectively replace text, (like paths etc) as the file is being copied.  So if 
you are deploying to W32 you could replace paths one way, or if you are 
deploying to unix your files would have different contents. 

There is also a pathconvert built-in ant taskdef that takes a targetOS 
parameter to help with building paths for differing platforms.

I'm an Ant newbie myself, but it sure is flexible and not very hard to used.  
It was specifially designed to handle problems just like the one you mentioned.

Hope this helps.
Mike.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Downey [mailto:ndowney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:14 AM
To: enhydra@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Enhydra: Dependant Libs


I have an Enhydra Super-Servlet application which depends on two
external jar files. I have, and continue to, develop the application
under Linux, but it is deployed on Win 2k.

Currently I am modifying the APPCP environment variable within my run
script to ensure that the requisite jars are infact in the classpath
before the app starts, Ala - 

APPCP="${CLASSPATH}:lib/com.telt.com.jar:lib/jcifs.jar"

To make my life simple - and in the hopes that I can move this change
out of the run script - I have ensured that these jars are available in
the lib directory, underneath my parent project input/output
directories. And that all works fine. My question is in reference to
minimizing the impact of changing platforms between development and
deployment. Is the run script the correct place to make additions to the
application classpath, or have I failed to read some documentation? Any
change that I make to the run.in script I also have to make to the
run.bat.in script. Is there another way?

Thanks

--
  Nickolas Emmanuel A. Downey
  Teltronics, Inc.  678.581.8046 
  ndowney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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