[RFC] Netx: some native libraries are not found

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 21 June 2010 15:32, Omair Majid <omajid at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a bug in the current version of Netx that fails to find some native
> libraries [1][2].
>
> In the current implementation of Netx, one classloader is created per JNLP
> file; for JNLP files loaded as extensions, the classloaders share
> information about where to find resources. Unfortunately, they do not share
> any information about where to find native libraries. This makes Web Start
> applications with extensions that use native libraries fail. The proposed
> patch [3] fixes this.
>
> Any comments concerns? Should I go ahead and commit this fix?
>
> Cheers,
> Omair
>
>
> [1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=507
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526247
> [3] http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=368
>

Looks good to me, though I would drop all this use of 'this.' which
isn't necessary.

Let's see what Deepak has to say before commit.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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