Hi,

 

it can cause difficult to track problems, if on a notes server (or client also) some jar files are missing or older versions are still present for some reason. For example look at that technote: tinyurl.com/6oc725 . I guess a lot of admins and developers don't know how to react, if something like this happens. Especially as the log files of notes do not offer much clue in such cases.  Of course this is nothing notes-specific. Classpath issues can inflict you on any java environment.

It would be great if IBM would provide some sort of classpath-sanity-check tool. Or it may be developed openSource, as there are tools to check the classpath. If I find the time (and I don't have much of that resource) I may start some feasability investigation on the issue and post it here as answer.