Binary compatibility and finding compiled classes

Sat Oct 9 09:00:00 GMT 2004

David Daney writes:
 > 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.
Surely that's fixable. It's crazy to disallow perfectly good
engineering solutions just because of packaging.
 > 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.
Or put the jar in the DSO...
Andrew.