[RFC] JNLP: jars with native libraries in incorrect locations

[Omair Majid]

Hi,

I recently ran into a problem with SweetHome3D [1] not working under 
Netx. The jnlp file contains no 'nativelib' elements which initially led 
me to believe that it contains no native code. However, one of the jars 
it references [2] contains native code under /linux/x64/. Both of these 
things (no nativelib element and placing .so's anywhere other than under 
/) seem to go against the developer guide's guidelines. Of course, 
without reading the JSR, I can not say if this is against the JNLP spec 
or not.

That said, since the Sun/Oracle Webstart works with SweetHome3D, Netx 
should work too. The attached patch modifies Netx so that it always 
tries to look for .so's (placed anywhere) in jar files. If it finds 
them, it activates them as if the .so's were in a nativelib jar.

Any thoughts or comments?

Cheers,
Omair


[1] http://www.sweethome3d.com/SweetHome3D.jnlp
[2] http://www.sweethome3d.com/lib/linux/x64/java3d.jar
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