Tim,
once more I must admit that I am a total idiot and you (again) are right.
Certainly I shouldn't give the JAR names but the extension names.
Damned, I should kick my own ass for beeing so blind.
Thanks a lot!
Markus
Tim Quinn schrieb:
> Hi, Markus.
>
> I should have been clearer in my earlier message.
>
> The names in your JAR manifest's Extension-List must refer to the
> extension names given in the manifests for the JARs that formally
> define those extensions. (Look in the JavaDoc for the Manifest class
> and click on the "Manifest format specification" link near the top for
> a much better and more complete discussion than what follows here.)
>
> Briefly, the manifest for a true extension JAR needs to include (for
> the mythical extension named TimsExt):
>
> Extension-Name: TimsExt
>
> and then your JAR's manifest can include
>
> Extension-List: TimsExt
>
> to refer to that extension.
> The JAR that defines the extension TimsExt could be named anything,
> such as markus.jar. The name of the JAR is not necessarily related to
> the name of the extension which the JAR might define.
>
> The key point here, though, is that the manifest in JDIC's jdic.jar
> does not seem to define JDIC as an extension at all. So your JAR's
> attempt to refer to an extension that way will not work.
>
> Or, putting it another way, when your manifest refers to the extension
> names jdic.jar (and friends) GlassFish is essentially doing what any
> class loader would do in processing your JAR - GlassFish tries to find
> a JAR in the class path that has a manifest containing
>
> Extension-Name: jdic.jar
>
> and there is no JAR in the class path that does that. Even if
> jdic.jar is on the class path (by virtue of being in the Java SE
> extension directory) there is still the missing piece of the
> Extension-Name: definition that is absent in the jdic.jar's manifest.
>
> (I do not think there is a restriction prohibiting dots from extension
> names but I'm not absolutely positive about that. I'm just following
> through with your example.)
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> - Tim
>
> Markus KARG wrote:
>> Tim,
>>
>> thank you for your answer. In fact, I do not use
>> "jdic.jar-Extension-Name" anywhere. Here is the sole Extension-List
>> entry:
>>
>> Extension-List: jmf.jar jdic.jar jdic_stub.jar
>>
>> So the string "jdic.jar-Extension-Name" seems to be generated
>> internally in GlassFish.
>>
>> As soon as you can commit that it really is a bug I will file an
>> issue in the tracker, but I first want to be sure that it isn't my
>> personal fault.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Markus
>>
>> glassfish_at_javadesktop.org schrieb:
>>> [I sent the following e-mail reply to the mailing list yesterday.]
>>>
>>> Hello, Markus.
>>>
>>> The flagged line from the stack trace is trying to get the manifest
>>> attribute value jdic.jar-Extension-Name from a manifest. I suspect
>>> what you really want there is jdic-Extension-Name (no .jar suffix).
>>> There could be other similar problems, either for other attributes
>>> (such as version) for jdic or for other packages.
>>>
>>> Could you please check your manifest and make sure the attributes
>>> are as you want them?
>>>
>>> As an aside, the GlassFish error handling for this sort of problem
>>> could use some improvement. Could I interest you in opening an issue?
>>>
>>> - Tim
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>>>
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