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Re: How to create a batch file for Java Console Application?

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On Apr 24, 8:55 am, Peter Duniho <NpOeStPe...@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> wrote:
> On 4/23/11 11:54 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>
> > On 4/23/2011 8:37 PM, buddy s wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> you need to first set your classpath in .bat file and then your need
> >> to invoke your application using "java" command you can get more
> >> information about classpath here
> >>http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-classpath-work-in-java....
>
> > Why do you consider setting the classpath variable preferable to using
> > the java -cp parameter?
>
> Can't answer for "buddy s", but I think -cp is clearly superior.
>
> But if someone really wanted to set the CLASSPATH environment variable
> in a Windows .bat batch file, they can easily do so without affecting
> other Java programs as long as the batch file itself runs only the one
> Java program and either a) the batch file itself is run in a non-shared
> environment (e.g. by double-clicking a link to the batch file itself,
> which will create a new console window just for that batch file), or b)
> including the "setlocal" statement at the beginning of the batch file,
> so that any changes to the environment are not preserved once the batch
> file ends.
>
> Pete

Thanks for all the feedback.

OK, maybe I can get a little simpler advice.  I do not have that much
experience in Java programming and I was more active in this project
on the
C++ end.  I appreciate the technical discussion but it's on a level a
few levels more abstract than creating a practical solution.  The
average user I find cannot be trusted to know much about anything and
so install routines need to be brainless.  I have had a lot of
professional
experience with average end users and their needs.  Most of them are
not technically
inclined.

Right not I have a Java console application
that needs to be decompressed from a zip file.  I imagine
that they can see the folder at this point after they have
personally decompressed this file.
I can give them instructions like this:

"One has to keep double clicking on the folders you see until
one finds the folder that says Resources. In this
folder there will be a program that says Contents.
In that folder, ones clicks on the JParaMindAndDictStd.bat
file and the program launches without any problem."

Can someone think of a solution easy for me to program as an essential
Java newbie that will help a newcomer not have to navigate a lot
of hidden folders?

This is the current path structure of the batch file:

java -cp c:\ParaMind Windows64-1.1\JParaMind.app\Contents\Resources
\Java\JParaMindAndDict.jar JParaMind

How could I make the path more of a global variable that would work on
anyone's machine?

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