It's probably sufficient to put the necessary configuration anywhere on the
classpath? I doubt one actually has to hack resources.jar?
> On Feb 27, 2014, at 6:07 AM, Michael Hall <mik3h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 27, 2014, at 4:52 AM, Paul Taylor <paul_t...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>> In my code I have:
>>
>> ScriptEngineManager mgr = new ScriptEngineManager();
>> ScriptEngine engine = mgr.getEngineByName("AppleScript");
>>
>> this works fine for me, but for some customers in returns null for engine.
>>
>> We are using Java 1.8.0 25.0-b69 64bit (build 129)
>>
>> Customer was on Mac OS X 10.9.2 x86_64, I've upgraded to same version still
>> don't get the problem.
>>
>> Applescript does exist because earlier in my code I run some applescript
>> using osascript and Runtime class and that works fine
>
> l don't know that it was precisely determined what caused this. Possibly some
> change in an OS upgrade where Apple removed something from their java
> distribution?
> Although we didn't know it, we were relying on the Apple code being in place.
> Your three options would be…
>
> 1)
> Provide the code in the jar and dylib yourself. This is what I did and what I
> made available on github at…
> https://github.com/mik3hall/AppleScriptEngine
> All you really need are the jar and dylib.
> Put the dylib in the application's MacOSX folder. appbundler adds that to
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> Put the jar in the application's Java folder, this should get it into class
> path.
> Done and should work on any configuration.
>
> 2).
> Fix the openjdk configuration error yourself. This means adding the
> AppleScriptEngine entry to the config file in resources.jar. I believe the
> bug report I gave earlier details how to do that.
>
> 3).
> Wait for openjdk to correct the configuration file in resources.jar
>
> My understanding on that one anyhow.
>
> Michael Hall
>
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