Craig, (playing devil's advocate here)
by this reasoning, executable jars should be differentiated from non
executable jars, i.e. .xar or .jax files, to differentiate them.
Personally, this would suit me fine. But it's not consistent at the
moment. Many times i've tried to open jsdk.jar using a windows box with
1.2 to watch it do nothing.
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Re: Comments on 2.2 Public Review Draft
Chris Pratt wrote:
> I'd have to agree with you on the proliferation of extensions for the
same
> file format. So far we have zip, jar, ear, and war. How many do we
really
> need. I can see the distinction between zip and jar, the jar extension
> indicates that the program should look for the special contents. But
the
> ear and war files should just be additional manifest entries IMHO.
> (*Chris*)
>
Scenario: I want to have my OS map "*.jar" files to execute the JVM when
they
are double clicked (because they have an application main program in
them),
but I want to start my web-app deployer tool when I double-click a "*.war"
file. How do I do that if I'm using the same file extension for both?
Until the OSs are smarter about looking inside a file (and, in the case at
hand, understanding the JAR file format and the rules for what makes
something
a web-app versus not), filename extensions per purpose seem to be the way
to
go.
Craig McClanahan
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