JarScan, scan all JAR files in all subfolders for specific class

Question

We are seeing an older version of a class being used, although we had the latest one deploy. To scan all JAR files in all subfolders of an application server, how do we writ

Answer 1

Years ago I wrote a utility classfind to resolve issues like this. Set your classpath to point to your .jar set, and classfind will tell you in which jars it'll find a particular class.

example% classfind -c Document
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/rt.jar -> org.w3c.dom.Document
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/rt.jar -> javax.swing.text.Document