From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Wed Feb  8 22:45:57 2012
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:57 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Canonical package directory name for JAR files?
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Unfortunately we cannot mandate JDK so packages have to use the build stage for compilation so the S+ model doesn't work. I think java is more consistent than src/java -> jars

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On Feb 8, 2012, at 3:27 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote:

> For what it is worth, the S+ package system uses
> the java directory in source packages to store
> java source code (under pkg/java/src/, using the usual
> directory structure that follows the class structure
> under there), prebuilt jar files (in pkg/java/prebuiltjars,
> no subdirectories), and a Makevars file (pkg/java/Makevars)
> that can define the java compiler flags PKG_JAVAC_CLASSPATH
> and PKG_JAVACFLAGS, e.g.,
>  PKG_JAVAC_CLASSPATH=$(SHOME)/java/jre/libext/jaxp.jar;$(SHOME)/java/jre/libext/batik.jar
>  PKG_JAVACFLAGS=-verbose -g
> 
> INSTALL compiles the java code in pkg/java/src and puts
> it into into a jar file called pkg/jars/pkg.jar.  All of
> the jar files in pkg/java/prebuiltjars are copied into
> pkg/jars as well.  The installed package has a jars directory
> but no java directory (i.e., {java,jars} <=> {src,libs}).
> 
> library(pkg) adds pkg/jars to the CLASSPATH so .Java calls
> will find it.
> 
> 
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Roebuck,Paul L
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 8:14 AM
>> To: Simon Urbanek
>> Cc: R-Devel
>> Subject: Re: [Rd] Canonical package directory name for JAR files?
>> 
>> On 2/7/12 5:37 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Feb 7, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Roebuck,Paul L wrote:
>>> 
>>>> We have an R package which needs to include a JAR file.
>>>> Is there a canonical directory for it?
>>> 
>>> rJava defines "java" for that purpose (see ?.jpackage).
>>> How canonical that is may be open for debate ;)
>> 
>> Yeah, when I wrote Java stuff, that was the Java source code
>> root directory. Yet, 'lib' (which was the directory where JAR
>> files lived in Java projects) seems inappropriate for non-Java
>> projects.
>> 
>> But 'java' appears to be the de-facto standard for R packages,
>> so...
>> 
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[Rd] Canonical package directory name for JAR files?
Simon Urbanek