java.endorsed.dirs plan

Tue Mar 15 00:23:00 GMT 2005

Tom> Work on getting jonas to work has shown that we need to properly
Tom> implement java.endorsed.dirs.
Tom> 3. Keep javax.imageio in libgcj.so, but compile it BC. This is needed
Tom> as otherwise loading a different org.w3c.dom could break
Tom> javax.imageio. (Ugly Makefile hacking, here I come.)
It turns out that gnu.xml, javax.xml, and gnu.java.beans also needed
this treatment. The resulting Makefile isn't too awful, though, since
each of these packages is treated similarly.
Tom