J. R. Westmoreland wrote:
I noticed that the install puts the .jar files in /usr/share/java. Many .jar files that are extensions to java go in the .../jre/lib/ext directory. A couple of examples would be jsse and mm.mysql.
The Debian Java Policy says that libraries must go into /usr/share/java, see http://people.debian.org/~opal/java/policy-libraries.html for details. A Debian package can't put JARs in the extensions directory simply because it can't know which JVM you want to use. And maybe you don't want these classes in you class path all the time (e.g. for testing different versions) so that's another reason why the should not be in the JVM's extensions directory. -- Stefan Gybas