[Xapian-discuss] Java API

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:37:52PM +0000, Nathaniel Trevivian wrote:
> It was confusing I guess because we were expecting JAR to be a  
> utility built into java. Normally we would jar things using java - 
> jar ...etc

"java -jar" uses code from a .jar file, but the bindings need to be
able to *construct* a .jar file from a bunch of .class files.  I'm no
java guru, but I believe it's standard to use the "jar" utility to
actually construct .jar files.

> Where did you learn all this!?

Absorbed from reading the internet I guess.

Cheers,
    Olly