The idea of getting the user to drop in the 'other' jars into the lib/ext one I had thought of, but wasn't sure whether that is generally a good idea. I've got no idea. Maybe. I guess that's what the directory is there for, but I gather we would need to fully inform the user in the documentation that by doing this, they effectively trust the jar author as much as they do Sun.
Maybe we could go with that as a first phase and see how it goes. That's my only option at the moment. What's driving my own particular itch is to be able to get access to some log files on a remote server, and the ONLY option I have is access via ssh, so Jsch is what I need. cheers, Paul Smith -----Original Message----- From: Mario Ivankovits To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Sent: 5/18/04 4:55 PM Subject: Re: [vfs][Chainsaw]: Web start + external dependances + license=ouch Paul Smith wrote: Cant say much about the licensing stuff, i am sure soneone else has more knowledge on this story. >So now I am in a catch-22, I am not allowed to host the external jars, and >can't access the jars from a separate URL code-base via Web Start. So VFS >might be impossible to integrate into Chainsaw. > > Why not integrate the possible jars thus the user could have http, ftp, webdav and local. Those users who would like to use smb or sftp could use a local Chainsaw installation and put the needet jars in their classpath. vfs doesnt need those libraries, it simply do not load the provider. Even if not nice, anoter solution could be to assist the user to put those jars manually into the java lib directory - then a webstart application should be able to use them? >So VFS might be impossible to integrate into Chainsaw. > Not using vfs might not solve the licensing problem - if there is a licensing problem, you couldnt use these external libraries anyway. However, i dont know much about WebStart so maybe you see a technical reason why this could not work. -- Mario --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
