[fedora-java] tomcat5

[Gary Benson]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mardi 08 mars 2005 à 12:24 -0700, Tom Tromey a écrit :
> > >>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net> writes:
> > 

> > Nicolas> You have to remember though things move in-jvm every
> > Nicolas> release and it's mightily nice to be able to hide these
> > Nicolas> changes from the packages so you don't have to rewrite
> > Nicolas> specs all the time
> > 
> > Yeah... actually I'm fine with leaving things as they are.  I just
> > wasn't sure where these symlinks should point for libgcj.  But it
> > sounds like just pointing them at libgcj.jar should work.
> 
> The symlinks are actually just a security (yes the jvm includes
> stuff we need). You can probably point them to any jar you like - if
> the stuff in internal to the jvm it'll be added to the classpath
> anyway.
> 
> It's nicer to point them to the real implementation though, if only
> to document the jvm internal layout.

Would it be better perhaps to replace the symlinks with empty jar
files?  Or maybe jarfiles containing only a README to indicate that
the classes that would be in there are now in the core classpath?

Cheers,
Gary