Re: [pde-build-dev] JNLP, pack200, and nested jars

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew,
Does the pack.excludes property apply to jars within other jars? I guess 
they do and that solves my problem although what I really would like is 
the ability to set

jarprocessor.exclude.children.pack = true

in the pack.properties. I know that in my case (when generating for 
JNLP), whenever I encounter a nested jar, it should refrain from 
packing. It appears this property is never read from the 
pack.properties. Would it be feasible to change this so that the global 
properties from 'pack.properties' is added to the 'containingInfs' list 
that the JarProcessor maintains?

- thomas


Andrew Niefer wrote:
> The pack.properties file also supports a 'pack.excludes' property. 
>  The value is a comma separated list of jar names to exclude.
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> I'm JNLP enabling an Eclipse based application. I'm using Pack200
> (through the jarprocessor) to recude the bulk of the download.
> Everything is fine but one single thing. The
> 'org.eclipse.core.resources_3.2.2.R32x_v20061218.jar' contains a nested
> jar file. Apparently, this file is subject to a recursive pack200 and
> that is not understood by the JNLP protocol. From what I've understood,
> it can do (and expect) recursive signing, but not recursive pack.
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> I've seen that the meta-inf/eclipse.inf file can be used to specify the
> property jarprocessor.exclude.children.pack=true. I'm however, not the
> owner of this bundle. I can patch it of course but I was wondering if
> there's some way I can specify this outside of the bundle. I know that
> pack200 command line arguments can be passed using a '<jar>.pack.args'
> property in a 'pack.properties' at the root of my zip file but that
> doesn't help me much.
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> Can I trigger the jarprocessor.exclude.children.pack in any other way
> then patching the actual eclipse.inf file inside of the bundle?
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> Thanks,
> Thomas Hallgren
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