1 ## Copyright (C) 2007 Michael Goffioul
2 ## Copyright (C) 2010 Martin Hepperle
4 ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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9 ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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18 ## @deftypefn {Function file} {} javaaddpath (@var{path})
20 ## Adds @var{path} to the dynamic class path of the Java virtual
21 ## machine. @var{path} can be either a directory where .class files
22 ## can be found, or a .jar file containing Java classes.
25 ## @seealso{javaclasspath}
27 function javaaddpath (class_path)
32 % MH 30-08-2010: added tilde_expand to allow for specification of user's home
33 new_path = canonicalize_file_name (tilde_expand (class_path));
34 if (exist (new_path, "dir"))
35 if (! strcmp (new_path (end), filesep))
36 new_path = [new_path, filesep];
38 elseif (! exist (new_path, "file"))
39 error ("invalid Java classpath: %s", class_path);
41 success = java_invoke ("org.octave.ClassHelper", "addClassPath", new_path);