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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 12:24:00 -0600
From: Dallas Hockley <hockleyd@cybersoft.ab.ca>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] "static" libraries?
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Jeffrey Napolitano wrote:
> 
> I have a Java application which uses JDBC, and it is going to put on a
> few different machines using postgres and postgres's JDBC driver.  My
> question is this:  Is there a method of *including* the JDBC driver into
> the Java application?  An equivalent to statically linking a library in


This can be done by "unjarring" the postgresql jdbc driver jar in the
base class directory of your app/let and then jar'ring the entire
distribution into one file.  The relative class resolution must be
correct, and it will work....

Good Luck.

Dallas

Dallas Hockley
hockleyd@cybersoft.ab.ca