[ale] Should JAR files go in lib or share?

[Chris Fowler]

I think share for something like a J2EE application is fine.  There are XML files, images, HTML, etc.   Dependencies like mysql-connector-java should be in lib.

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From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:45 PM
To: Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] Should JAR files go in lib or share?

Quack!

Use a lib concept. The alternative method is when it's a large application with lib and logics and it goes in share.

On November 3, 2020 1:51:56 PM EST, Chris Fowler via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
I was having a discussion with a developer this morning about my choice to put our JAR files in lib and since they are technically libraries should be there, but when going after another JAR file I noticed Ubuntu uses share. lib.

I noticed that CentOS and Ubuntu have different ideas too.

CentOS places the actual file in lib and a symlink in share.

[DEVEL libxalan-java]$ ls -l /usr/share/java/jna.jar
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 22 Nov  8  2019 /usr/share/java/jna.jar -> ../../lib/java/jna.jar

Ubuntu puts the jar in share:
chris at mechonis:~/Downloads$ ls -l /usr/share/java/js.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 20  2017 /usr/share/java/js.jar -> js-1.7.7.1.jar

I'm going with lib because the nature of these files aare that they are "libarires" that get loaded, executed, and are an API.  They look like a libXXXX.so and quack like a libXXXX.so.




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