[vtkusers] VTK+java application for distribution

[Simeon Fitch]

Mahendra,

Out of the box Java does not extract shared libraries out of a JAR file and
load them. There are third party libraries and code samples online that do
this, but to my knowledge VTK hasn't integrated with any of them. Without
such supporting framework, the typical way of handling this is to *not*
include the shared libraries in your JAR file, but have them in a directory
extracted with whatever distribution installer or archive format you use,
and have whatever launcher script/program pass that path to Java with
"-Djava.library.path=...". I think "-Dvtk.lib.dir=..." is supposed to work
too, but I've had less luck with that on windows and the other variable
seems to work on all platforms I've tried.

I've found this link helpful:

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Java_Wrapping

Here's the VTK utility code (template) that supports the loading process.

https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/blob/master/Wrapping/Java/vtk/vtkNativeLibrary.java.in






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