[armedbear-devel] Folding Lisp application code into a JAR file in the Java CLASSPATH

[Olsen, Peter C.]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Is there an elegant way to have ABCL load Lisp code from a JAR file in the
Java CLASSPATH? 

I'm helping build an application to run under ABCL and I'd like to take all
the code and roll it up into a JAR file in the CLASSPATH when I start the
interpreter.  If possible I'd then like to have ABCL find the file as though
it were in the current directory.  I know that ABLC is finding its system
files in abcl.jar and I can load Lisp code from a local JAR file, but I
haven't figured out how to put the two together and load Lisp elegantly from
a JAR file in the CLASSPATH.  I can do it inelegantly by getting the
CLASSPATH from the Java System class, inspecting all its JAR files, then
loading the right ones manually, but that seems awkward for a customer
application.

I'd appreciate any pointers.

Finally, please let me apologize in advance if there's some simple answer
that I should have found but haven't.

Peter
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