The Java Extension Mechanism

Article by Thomas Kunneth, 4 pages, 15 minutes.
This article was about something completely different than I thought it would be. What it is about is a way to drop jars in a directory of the JRE and have them be used by for all apps on that JRE. Given that I've been forced to use the lib/endorsed directory for quite some time now, this wasn't really news to me.
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