> I don't truly understand why the built in mechanism doesn't work either.
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> I have placed the natives in the same jar in the /natives/ directory as the fat jar method explains yet when it comes to initialisation the built in mechanism results in searching the user directory and the system path and fails.
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> Before my modifications I found that the TempJarCache isn't initialised. I concluded that this must have something to do with Platform not being initialised with the system class loader. My implementation of ClassLoader downloads jars to a permanent cache on a demand basis giving full privileges to the classes.
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> My workaround has been to alter JNILibLoaderBase so that in initialises TempJarCache and extracts the native that has been called for, loads it and then returns success. This works very well.
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> Believe me when I would have preferred to use the built in mechanism as I have spent hours trying to solve this.
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> Regards
> P
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