Re: Windows port installer

[Paul Thomas <paul(at)tmsl(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk>]

On 13/07/2004 15:37 Chris Smith wrote:
> [snip]
> There's not really a location to install JDBC drivers onto an operating
> system.  They are not native libraries, and are typically packaged with
> applications.  The closest thing you could do to an installation would be
> to
> locate JVM install directories via 
> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/JavaSoft/Java
> Runtime Environment/*/JavaHome", and drop the JAR file into lib/ext
> relative
> to that directory;

Which should totally screw up anyone using Tomcat (and probably a lot of 
other apps that use custom class loaders).

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