hi,
i provided a plugin for adobe acrobat which is written in
java. so C/C++ accesses my plugin through JNI.
following problems:
1) i need to set the classpath to the .jar which represents my plugin (otherwise ClassNotFoundDef error). the directory of this .jar is not static so i cannot hardcode the respective path into my JNI code.
2) i too provided an installer which sets up plugins directory, this installer is written in java so i cannot set up systems CLASSPATH or some other variable (like PATH_TO_MY_PLUGIN) persistently, which can easily be accessed from C++ code.
my ideas:
1) my installer could write into a properties file which has got the path information as entry, but this states again the problem how this properties file is going to be found
for this i could try to find out some relations between systems envs and java properties (TEMP <-> java.io.tmpdir), but that seems to be brittle as well. anyways TEMP is for temporary stuff and my plugin path property file should be persistent. so i would misuse environment variables.
2) scan file system for my plugin-jar to find out the path. that solution seems to me to be very ugly.
3) using JNI inside my installer to call up C/C++ code and thus to set up environment variable PATH_TO_MY_PLUGIN, which still is not applicable that this environment variable gets lost after reboot (i think at least).
so have you got any other (better) ideas?
thanks a lot!
[ September 15, 2006: Message edited by: manuel aldana ]
