[RIVER-228] Class server directory defaults seem wrong

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: jtsk_2.1
• Component/s: com_sun_jini_tool
• Bugtraq ID: 6192362
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jim Hurley
• Created: 10/Aug/07 20:05
• Updated: 10/Aug/07 20:05

Description

Bugtraq ID 6192362

The default directory used by ClassServer, if none is specified, is "J:" on Windows and "/vob/jive/lib" non-Windows operating systems. These seem like very bizzare defaults.

A better default may be 'pwd' or making the -dirs option mandatory.

Of course, changing these defaults has a (very) slim chance of breaking an external customer's exisiting scripts.
[e-mail] 2004-11-08 21:48:21 GMT

Evaluation
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Defaulting to the current working directory does not seem useful,
given how this service is normally run. The current defaults, even
if not useful, do not seem to be causing trouble; there seems little
benefit in making -dir mandatory. Perhaps a better default would be
to use the directory from the CodeSource location of ClassServer
itself, obtained at runtime.

Now that we've got split lib and lib-dl directories, defaulting
to the directory of the CodeSource location isn't a particularly
good default either.