itw-settings: which jars need to be appended to the bootclasspath

[Jiri Vanek]

On 10/25/18 3:49 PM, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
> Trying to  use netx.jar under MS Windows for starting the itw-settings GUI, I was able to start the
> GUI with the following (minimal) script itw-settings.cmd:
> 
>    set JAVA=java.exe
>    set ITW_Home=H:/Java
>    set NetX=netx.jar
>    start %JAVA% -Xbootclasspath/a:%ITW_Home%/%NetX%  net.sourceforge.jnlp.controlpanel.ControlPanel
> 
> the bash script for Linux has some other jars appended to the bootclasspath:
> 	plugin.jar, jsobject.jar, tagsoup.jar, and rhino.jar
> 
> Since I left these out in my -Xbootclasspath/a: option, what errors should I expect? 

you wil be fine. The only reason for those depndendices, is that itweb-settings.sh (and
poliy-editor) are generated from same sources as javaws.sh (lkauncher.sh.in)

Thus the dependencies of javaws flows in too, as they are part of install anyway.
> Until now I did not see any errors, except that the extended policy editor tries to find
> the policy file in the wrong location.
> 
> I am currently trying this in Windows 7 with the Oracle JRE 1.8.0_181 as future substitute for javaws.
> The netx .jar was built under Debian 9.5 (stretch) from the icedtea-web-1.7.1 sources.
> 
> Experimenting with the prebuild msi installer from the ojdkbuild (https://github.com/ojdkbuild/ojdkbuild) 
> under Windows 10 I had to replace netx.jar by javaws.jar and to use subst J: <java-install-drive-path>
> since the default installation path contains a blank ("Program Files").
> 
> Regards & thanks in advance
> --
>   Bernhard
> 


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Jiri Vanek
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