I have a DLL and a native class that I want to distribute in a JAR package. The first question is, is it possible to have the VM load my DLL from inside of the JAR file?

I have built the native java class and declared it as:

			

			package com.xxxx.yyyy;
			

			public class zzzz
			

		

I have then compiled it using Javac with the -d option to create the file comxxxxyyyyzzzz.class.

I have run Javah from the base of the tree and created the H file called com_xxxx_yyyy_zzzz.h. This has the fully qualified stubs in it.

The DLL builds fine - and then the fun starts. I build my test program using javac -classpath . and I run it using java -classpath . with the DLL in the same directory as the test program. This works. If I package up the native class into a JAR and put it in the ext directory under the JRE, then it compiles but at run time I get an unsatisfiedLinkError.

Can't seem to get past this, and I have no idea how to get it to load the DLL from inside the JAR if this is even possible.

Any Clues?

Chris B