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

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On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:53:41 -0700 (PDT), Mozart
<publicrelationschief@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>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?
>
>
You best bet is to enclose everything in a Jar and leave the classpath
alone.
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Re: How to create a batch file for Java Console Application? Mozart <publicrelationschief@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 10:53 -0700
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