[Rxtx] Easier to install

[Gregg Wonderly]

The easiest thing to do, anytime you have a JNI library to use, is just include all the versions in the jar, and copy them out to a temp file as created by File, and the use load instead of loadLibrary to load from that path.

Makes the users job easy.  You do need to think about Exception handling in case it was already loaded hand act accordingly.

Gregg Wonderly

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On Jul 7, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Kustaa Nyholm <Kustaa.Nyholm at planmeca.com> wrote:

> On 7/7/11 19:33, "Stephen More" <stephen.more at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I had a thought...
>>   What if all the Platform Specific libraries were included in the
>> distributed jar file, then there could be a java class something like
>> installUtils with installIfNeeded().
>> 
>> Then if the end-users ever upgrade their jre, applications could be
>> smart enough to realize the libs no longer exist and install them in
>> the proper location.
>> 
>> Has someone already written such code, or should I get started ?
> 
> 
> 
> My PureJavaComm which is based on JNA uses a similar stratege (JNA does
> it all) so there is never a platform library that you need to build,
> install or worry about:
> 
> http://www.sparetimelabs.com/purejavacomm/index.html
> 
> and
> 
> https://github.com/nyholku/purejavacomm
> 
> br Kusti
> 
> 
> 
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