Re: RFC: JVM Registry

[Ben Burton <bburton@mail.math.okstate.edu>]

> 	Looks good mate - one question though: How can a startup script for a
> 	pre-packaged application (or alternatively one of the pre-packaged
> 	recognition scripts) find out which registry file it should read when
> 	more than one debianised jvm package is installed ? Do you propose
> 	a symlink somewhere to the active registry file ?

A pre-packaged application should never query the registry files directly;
it should only use the recognition scripts in java-common.  These scripts
will do things like search through all the registry files for a JVM of
version >= foo, or hunt down the registry file of whichever JVM is
referenced by the /usr/bin/java alternative and return properties of that
JVM.

Ben.