[Bluej-discuss] Configuration Questions

[Simon Read]

Folks,

I am  (belatedly) trying to  organise the localised installers  we use
for  laboratory and  student machine  software.  I  have two  issues I
don't know how to solve.

First, I  would like to  make several libraries available  -- ACM-JTF,
ObjectDraw  and JOGL  notably.  I'd  like these  libraries to  also be
available  to Eclipse  users (and  possibly NetBeans  and/or Greenfoot
users in the future).  I'd like to install these in a shared location,
but I  can't find  a way  of making BlueJ  find it.   I can  only find
manual configuration  and userlib configuration.  A  reference I found
on the 'net to  bluej.systemlibrary#.location doesn't seem to work for
me.  Using a separate copy of  these libraries for each IDE will cause
the usual consistency problems with such copies.

Second,  I would  like users  to  be encouraged  to use  a folder  "My
Documents\My BlueJ  Projects" for Bluej  stuff.  Though I can  set the
home  directory, I  can't seem  to make  it be  a subdirectory  of "My
Documents" (except on the labratory machines for local reasons).

I think I'm being an idiot,  but why do all of the IDEs ignore/clobber
the CLASSPATH environment variable?  Why do none of them even allow me
to ask them to use it?

Thanks.

Simon Read
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Saint Mary's College of Maryland