## Copyright (C) 2007 Michael Goffioul
## Copyright (C) 2010 Martin Hepperle
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function file} {} javarmpath (@var{path})
##
## Removes @var{path} from the dynamic class path of the Java virtual
## machine. @var{path} can be either a directory where .class files
## can be found, or a .jar file containing Java classes.
##
## @end deftypefn
## @seealso{javaaddpath,javaclasspath}

function javarmpath (class_path)

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  else
    % MH 30-08-2010: added tilde_expand to allow for specification of user's home
    old_path = canonicalize_file_name (tilde_expand(class_path));
    if (exist (old_path, "dir"))
      if (! strcmp (old_path (end), filesep))
        old_path = [old_path, filesep];
      end
    end
    success = java_invoke ('org.octave.ClassHelper', 'removeClassPath', old_path);
    if (! success)
      disp (['Warning: ', old_path, ' not found in Java classpath.', 10]);
    end
  end

end