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On 2012-02-02 16:28:28 +1100, Roedy Green said:

> What does a user have to do to run a jar on the Mac (other than JNLP),
> where you actually install the jar for continued use.

Drag the .jar to the user's /Applications directory.  Double-clicking 
the .jar will launch it.  The jar  doesn't actually have to be in 
/Applications it can be in any directory which has execute privileges 
for the user.