<AWT Dev> xawt/libmawt.so and headless/libmawt.so

[Artem Ananiev]

On 4/20/2011 4:32 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Alan Bateman said the following on 04/20/11 01:46:
>> I'm currently looking at the location of our native libraries (the
>> context is jigsaw, not jdk7) and I'm wondering about xawt/libmawt.so
>> and headless/libmawt.so. Would I be correct to say that they aren't
>> strictly required to be a sub-directory and if given unique names
>> there wouldn't be an issue if they were located in the same directory
>> as the other native libraries for the desktop area?
>
> libmawt.so is known to the VM. We use it with Embedded to detect if we
> are currently running our headless JRE or not: if xawt/libmawt.so (or
> motif21/libxawt.so) isn't present then it is an Embedded headless JRE.
>
> So any change here would have to be coordinated with a VM change.

Right, any changes like this should be coordinated with different teams. 
Technically I don't see any issues with having the libraries in the same 
directory, if they are named differently.

> Glad I was subscribing to this list :)

My experience shows that many discussions from Swing, Java2D, JavaPlugin 
and other areas end up in awt-dev, so being subscribed to this alias is 
certainly useful :)

> David

Thanks,

Artem