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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.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:45 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Chris Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com>; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale@ale.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Should JAR files go in lib or share?</font>
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Use a lib concept. The alternative method is when it's a large application with lib and logics and it goes in share.<br>
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<div class="x_gmail_quote">On November 3, 2020 1:51:56 PM EST, Chris Fowler via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:
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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.
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I noticed that CentOS and Ubuntu have different ideas too.</div>
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CentOS places the actual file in lib and a symlink in share.</div>
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[DEVEL libxalan-java]$ ls -l /usr/share/java/jna.jar</div>
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lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 22 Nov 8 2019 /usr/share/java/jna.jar -> ../../lib/java/jna.jar</div>
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Ubuntu puts the jar in share:</div>
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chris@mechonis:~/Downloads$ ls -l /usr/share/java/js.jar
<div>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 20 2017 /usr/share/java/js.jar -> js-1.7.7.1.jar</div>
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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.</div>
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