[fedora-java] Jonas vs JTA

[Nicolas Mailhot]

On Jeu 14 juillet 2005 18:26, Gary Benson wrote:
> David Walluck wrote:
>> Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > Further, this creates difficulties testing FC's Jonas with
>> > other jpackaged JVMs because they require a separate jta.jar.
>>
>> What are the difficulties? `build-classpath jta` should return the
>> correct jar even though the actual jar returned may differ based on
>> jvm version.
>
> It does, however, jonas makes a symbolic link to jta.jar using
> build-jar-repository at build time (well, %install time).  Fedora's
> jonas is built with gcj, so the link points to gcj's jta.jar (in
> /usr/lib/jvm-exports/java/jta.jar).  This link is not changed when you
> switch JVM.

That's why you have evil brackets in symlink names and the
rebuild-jar-repository script. To have symlinks that follow JVM switches.

I don't know about jonas but I'm pretty sure the jpp tomcat package gets
this right

Regards,


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Nicolas Mailhot