JAR files and manifest: Class-Path

From: Karsten Wutzke (kwutzke-blahblah_at_emporis.com)
Date: 01/06/04 

Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 17:24:33 +0100

Hi!

I have a base dir, where the application JAR file resides. In this base
dir, there's also a lib dir, nothing special really. In this lib dir are
some user look and feel JAR files, which are supposed to be loaded when
the application is started via the JAR file.

Is there any way to use the Class-Path entry in the manifest, so that it
scans that ./lib directory and loads all the JARs in there, *without
knowing up-front, what these files are*?

I tried

Class-Path: ./lib
Class-Path: ./lib/
Class-Path: ./lib/*
Class-Path: ./lib/*.jar

but none of them work.

Maybe there's some other way, which I don't know of. I simply don't want
to explicitly deploy the JAR's (versions, size etc.).

Anyway, how do I do it?

Karsten

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