Originally Posted by
peter_budo 
jwenting this is not hopefull ! Please can you explain...
It is the case that teacher at school tell you set up Java this way and that is. We do not question them. So you as the programmer with years of experience should explain or point to the place where appropriate resources avaible(and no just go to sun website and find it). Not to just drop a shell bomb saing "that is bad, bad..."
placing anything there will mask the real issues, which is that you have no clue about configuring your runtime properly (including classpath settings especially).
It's also guaranteed to lead to the Java equivalent of DLL Hell in short order, as many applications require different versions of the same libraries and those often conflict.
By placing one version there you're shoving it down the throat of every Java application you run on your system as the one and only true version, leading to all kinds of problems.
If you need a library, get it from where you can get it (which differs for each library) and add it to your classpath as required for the lifetime of the JVM when running the application.
So NO placing anything in lib/ext, NO global classpath settings.
As people are clearly allowed to attack me but I'm not allowed to defend myself, I no longer post to this site.
