Binary compatibility and finding compiled classes

Sat Oct 9 00:08:00 GMT 2004

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>"Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
>>>>>Anyone have other ideas, comments, or constraints?
>>> Andrew> Put the DSO in the jar.
>> Some folks out there actually do this, I've seen code for it.
>> I'm not sure we ought to do it ourselves though. For one thing it
> means that signed jars would have to be re-signed.

I don't think so. IIRC the signing is on a per classfile basis, so adding
extra things to the jar would not invalidate the signature.
> For another, it
> interferes with common packaging approaches that make jars noarch.
>> Tom

I agree with this part. We want a way to tightly associate a DSO with a
jar file without having to touch the jar itself.
David Daney