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On 4/21/2012 2:43 PM, Hiram Hunt wrote:
...
> Thanks.  Yes, I know I can put options before the -jar option, but I would
> like to be able to just run the program as "MyProgram.jar" by using the
> ftype association in my original post.  Thus, my question is about passing
> arguments for java.exe in the jar file.  My guess at this point is that it
> is
> not possible.

Remember that a Java main is just a static method, and can be called. 
You could write, include in your jar, and make the main class something 
like this:

=====WARNING===UNTESTED=CODE========
public class Wrapper {
   private static String[] actualArgs = {
     "arg1",
     "arg2",
   }
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      HelloWorld.main(actualArgs);
   }
}
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