Best way to override MATLAB's default static javaclasspath

Question

MATLAB is configured to search its static java class path before searching the user-modifiable dynamic path. Unfortunately, the static path contains quite a number of very old p

Answer 1

If you're distributing a jar that's intended to be used with matlab, it may be better to use proguard as described at http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/UsingProGuardWithGuava.

If you specify that all of your classes and their (public) fields and methods are to be preserved and include guava as a program jar (not a library), then it will rename all of guava's methods and update your compiled bytecode to reference the new names.

It seems a bit hackish, but depending on the audience, it may be significantly easier than teaching your users about static vs. dynamic classpath, and it won't break any matlab code that depends on the old behavior.