B) I have the answer. In Tim's post (
http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=148941&tstart=30) i was mixing the terms "appli client JAR's Class-Path" and "app client's class path". Here's the difference:
So i was expecting the "--generatermistubs" command to update the application client module's Class-Path entries in its META-INF/manifest.mf file.
What happens is that the "appclient" script, when run against such an client JAR output by "generatermistubs" puts all the included jars on the class path of the contained application client module it executes. So an equivalent of "java -classpath jar1.jar;jar2.jar etc. etc. etc."
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