Update on Windows shortcut features for ITW

[jtesdall]

I have been through, many trials and tribulations mostly because I am not a
Java programmer but rather normally use .Net. Getting the Eclipse debugger
to work with ITW on Windows was quite a task and I hope to write a post
about how to accomplish it in the near future. Although I am not really sure
if I know how I got it working finally. ;0)

I will require a bit of help on some core ITW areas for my code to work
correctly in the framework. This I think will mainly be in the LRU area.
Here is what I have working and then what I need some help on.

1. I have Windows shortcuts being created on the Windows desktop and a Menu
created with the same shortcut and an uninstall shortcut as well. The
shortcuts are created with a external opensource library (.jar) called
mslinks since windows shortcuts are a binary file. I hope the ITW community
will be ok with utilizing this external jar otherwise my work will not be
able to be included. I keep track of shortcuts and menus created in a text
file in the root of cache. This work is all done in
runtime/ApplicationInstance.java calling the aformentioned jar classes to
create the actual shortcut files. 

2. I have modified the clear/purge cache function to also remove the windows
shortcuts and menu. This is done in cache\CacheUtil.java. Like is the
default in ITW this removes all cache and all ITW created windows shortcuts
and menus.  

3. The clear cache function and the need to have an uninstall feature in
windows per app made me realize I was going to have to add the capability to
remove one app at a time and call this from a new Uninstall shortcut and
maybe someday from add/remove programs. So I did this by addding the
capability of adding a codebase parameter to the -Xclearcache function in
Boot.java. I have this working except when it comes to the LRU I have not
been able to figure out how to mark a file for deletion so I can call
cleanCache. The markfordelete function requires a version parameter I
couldn't get figured out what to pass.  So I just loop through the
directories and delete the ones that match the codebase parameter I pass to
-Xclearcache and then call clearLRUSortedEntries (which removes all entries
for all apps). I know these two things are bad but it is working right now
for me so ..... I could use some help here to get it right.

4. The other thing I need help with is building a netx.jar I can use to do
some more testing on other windows machines. All functions, up until
removing one app at a time, I could build a netx.jar by just copying in the
new class files over top of the jar classes. But copying in Boot.class
doesn't work. Jiri mentioned I would have to use cygwin but I have no idea
how to do this. So I need help building a jar with my updated classes, can I
do this on windows? Exporting the jar normally from eclipse also does not
work. No linux available so I need to do this on windows if possible.

I think my work is useful if I can get by these two walls and do more
testing. Then I can cleanup my code and submit it to the project. Can
someone versed in ITW please lend a tired prograammer a hand! Jiri?!?



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