CLASSPATH and -classpath Settings

TABLE 2-1lists the requirements for setting the CLASSPATH environment variable and the -classpathargument when running either the Setup or SignatureTest commands. The table uses the following terms to describe the classes that must be included:

■Required classes - All superclasses and superinterfaces of the classes under test

■Classes under test - The set of classes specified by a combination of the following options:

■-package

■-PackageWithoutSubpackages

■-exclude

TABLE 2-1Settings for the Setup and SignatureTest Commands

Variable or Argument

In Reflection Mode

In Static Mode

 

 

 

CLASSPATH environment variable

Must contain these:

•sigtestdev.jar or sigtest.jar.

•Classes under test.

•Other required classes, except for bootstrap and extension classes described in “Bootstrap and Extension Classes” on page 10.

Must contain either

sigtestdev.jar or sigtest.jar.

-classpath argument

Required. Must contain

Must contain these:

the classes under test.

• Classes under test.

 

• All required classes.

Bootstrap and Extension Classes

Bootstrap and extension classes are those located in rt.jar and several other JAR files under the Java-Home/jre/lib/directory, where Java-Homeis the base directory of the Java platform runtime installation. For example, classes from the java package such as java.lang.Object are bootstrap classes. Their location is already available to the Java Virtual Machine environment. Because of this, they do not need to be specified in the CLASSPATH environment variable when reflection mode is used. Furthermore, bootstrap and extension classes are always loaded from JAR files located in the Java-Home/jre/lib/directory, regardless of whether they were specified in the class path or not. This is an important feature of the reflection mode.

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