[IcedTea] Where to put the new default NetX jar?

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Joshua Sumali wrote:
> Joshua Sumali wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've recently refactored the NetX package names to follow proper 
>> conventions. As a result, the old default NetX application breaks 
>> since it relies on the old package naming. As a result, I've made a 
>> new default application jar similar to the old one, but I'm unsure of 
>> where to put it. Note that the old one is hosted on the original 
>> author's SourceForge page, which we don't have access to. We can either:
>>
>> 1. Host it somewhere online (e.g. icedtea.classpath.org)
>> 2. Include the jar with the built JRE, since NetX will be part of the 
>> JRE soon (as opposed to the SDK). If we do this, which directory in 
>> the JRE would be appropriate?
>> 3. Something better?
>>
>> Comments appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Josh
> I just realized that we might have a problem with #2.
> While we can run jars from disk (as opposed to hosting it online), I 
> think it would be difficult to do #2 since I'm unsure what kind of 
> hard-coded path we'd use.
> 
> In a JNLP file we have:
> <jnlp spec="1.0" href="netx0.5.jnlp" 
> codebase="http://jnlp.sourceforge.net/netx/about/">
> [snip]
>  <resources>
>    <j2se version="1.3+"/>
>    <jar href="about0.5.jar"/>
>  </resources>
> 
> If we were to go ahead with #2, it would have to be something like
> <jnlp spec="1.0" href="default.jnlp" codebase="${java.home}/jre/lib">
> which I think is impossible.
> 
> I believe we'll definitely have to go with option #1

Doesn't jnlp support specifying codebase relatively, like applet tags 
do?  I think this application should go in the sample or demo directory. 
  Also, running NetX with no arguments should probably just print a 
usage message like other tools, rather than loading a sample application.

Tom