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Bug 90485

Summary:	Ant module should work in JNLP mode even on JRE
Product:	projects	Reporter:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Component:	Ant	Assignee:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P4
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	73990

Description Jesse Glick 2006-12-02 22:33:43 UTC

Tasks like (unforked) <javac> can only run if tools.jar can be found.
Currently you have to run javaws from a JDK installation for this to happen.
Tested on Linux and will probably work OK with any Sun JDK but may not work with
other JDKs; needs testing on Mac OS X in particular.

Could in principle find tools.jar elsewhere on the same machine, or (when fully
open source) this could be bundled or made available online somewhere.

Workaround (other than running from a JDK) is to use an explicit JDK.

Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2006-12-02 22:34:56 UTC

Currently assumes that the javaws app classloader is a URLClassLoader, and
hack to include tools.jar in the "classpath" may interact poorly with e.g. JPDA
support. Should probably be changed to use a more intelligent class loader.

Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2008-12-10 00:38:54 UTC

Later.

Comment 3 Quality Engineering 2009-11-02 11:02:37 UTC

NetBeans.org Migration: changing resolution from LATER to WONTFIX