Re: Importing from a Jar file WITHOUT unzipping it

Lew <noone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Are you talking about some new feature of 1.6.0_10 here?
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/classpath.html>
Class path entries can contain the basename wildcard character *,
which is considered equivalent to specifying a list of all the files
in the directory with the extension .jar or .JAR.
It came out before update 10.
If you're using obsolete or obsolescent versions of Java, YMMV.
Based on the copyright date, this feature has been in place for two years now.

Hmm, you see me confused about whatever I must have missed on that
event. He did talk about something new in a (back then) future version.

Maybe the speaker himself mixed it up (didn't know it was there
already), or I misunderstood him. It's up to you to emphasize
the latter of these options :-)

I didn't ever try to use the feature, so far, so it might have been
just under my hands the last couple of years ...

By that time, iirc, 1.6.0_04 (or up to 06) was current.

.

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