On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Pete Brunet <peter.bru...@oracle.com> wrote:
> The failure is on this line of code:
> AWTEventMonitor.addFocusListener(this)
> which resides in ...\classes\sun\awt\windows\accessibility
>
> AWTEventMonitor is a class in jaccess-1_4.jar which is in lib/ext
>
> However, just before the failing line is executed, a println shows these two
> system properties
> java.ext.dir: null
> java.class.path: \Program
> Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\demo\jfc\SwingSet2\SwingSet2.jar
>
> so that seems to explain why a class in a jar in lib/ext won't be found
> (unless there is some other internal means being used to find jar files).
>
> Since I suspect I'll eventually merge this package into the jdk, to continue
> debugging I extracted the jar into the classes directory.
Pete,
I'm not sure if you just have a typo, but the system property for
specifying alternate extension directories is "java.ext.dirs" [1], and
it can be a list of directories delimited by the
java.io.File.pathSeparatorChar (';' on Windows, ':' on Unix).
[1]:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/extensions/spec.html#installed
- Dave
