> btw. not all platforms have symlinks, nor do they work cross devices
> portably so a .war|sar|ear|blah.link with the path inside would be
> the best IMO.
Do you mean hard links? Every modern OS I know of today has them.
Windows XP/NT and beyond have them, but last time I tried use them they failed across
devices and was not exactly trivial to use ;)
Plus Java doesn't support them well...haven't tried latest Java 7 to see if thats
better there.
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