Finding a class in a sea of JARS?

Hobbes

Anyone know of a tool that can do this.

Let's say I have 100 JAR's in various subdirectories. I'm looking for a class and I know the full import name. Is there a tool that will taking that information tell me what jars have that class in it (with the correct package path).

davej

You can use a normal search.

In windows:

search for all *.jar files containing text "packagePath/x.class"

In unix use find/locate and grep.

davej

Hobbes

So just use '/' intead of '.' ?

bonkey

That should work Hobbes - a Jar being a glorified ZIP file, and having an internal directory structure to match the qualified class name.

If you open any zip file, you'll find a fairly readable chunk at the top.

There must be an easier way to do it though....

jc

Balmark

Download pkunzip.exe

copy it to where your jars are

type in dos box

pkunzip *.jar com\my\package\MyClass.class -t

and it'll tell you where it found it (-t for test)
That or just do a text search on the .jar files with any text search (the windows search for files containing text works .. )

Anyhow .. thats that

/Bal