java.endorsed.dirs plan

Fri Mar 11 15:26:00 GMT 2005

Tom Tromey writes:
 > 
 > 6. Handle duplicate class registration. Suppose the user replaces
 > half of org.xml.sax (and uses the .db approach so these are loaded
 > from a .so); in this case we will see duplicate class
 > registrations. One fix would be to disable this error in the
 > situation where the class is BC-compiled. I was worried about
 > symbol clashes causing problems for us, but I think we are
 > relatively safe here. In the future we can be more confident,
 > since the plan as I understand it is to avoid public symbols
 > altogether.
This is only ever going to be a problem if you forget to compile BC
libraries with -Bsymbolic.
Andrew.