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Re: Execution using javaw differs from Windows 7 default

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Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> wrote:

>Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Gordon Levi wrote:
>>> I have an application that uses the JDBC-ODBC driver that worked in
>>> the (Netbeans) IDE but failed to find the (Access) database when using
>>> the default file association under Windows 7. In the hope of getting
>>> some more information I ran the application in a command line window
>>> using javaw and it worked.
>>> 
>>> In summary, clicking on a shortcut to &quot;C:\src\myapp\dist\myapp.jar&quot;
>>> file in Windows 7 failed because it did not find my database although
>>> it invoked myapp. Clicking on a shortcut to
>>> "C:\Windows\System32\javaw.exe -jar C:\src\myapp\dist\myapp.jar"
>>> works. Can someone explain why?
>>> 
>>> In case it is relevant, I did try the jar file's directory and the
>>> database directory for the "Start in:" directory.
>>
>>Apparently the file association to the JAR files is not "C:\Windows\System32\javaw.exe -jar %1".
>>
>>What exactly is your associated command for JAR files?
>
>I think if I knew that "exactly" I might have been able to answer my
>own question. Window 7 shows it as a pretty Java icon with a
>description of "Java(TM) Platform SE binary".

I was wrong! I still can't answer my own question. Thanks to "Luuk" I
now know that the association is
C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\javaw.exe "%1" %*

I am executing C:\Windows\System32\javaw.exe. The two executables are
definitely different but I don't know the difference.

A significant omission from my post that was that I am running a 64
bit version of Windows 7 and I suspect that my lack of understanding
is because of a some incompatibility between the 32 and 64 bit
executables and/or drivers. 

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Execution using javaw differs from Windows 7 default Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2012-07-21 00:55 +1000
  Re: Execution using javaw differs from Windows 7 default Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-20 10:52 -0700
    Re: Execution using javaw differs from Windows 7 default Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-20 21:20 -0700
      Re: Execution using javaw differs from Windows 7 default David <usenet1@profectus.com.au> - 2012-07-22 02:16 +1000
        Re: Execution using javaw differs from Windows 7 default Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-21 16:11 -0700
    Re: Execution using javaw differs from Windows 7 default Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2012-07-22 02:11 +1000
      Re: Execution using javaw differs from Windows 7 default Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-07-21 16:50 +0000
        Re: Execution using javaw differs from Windows 7 default Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-07-21 19:58 +0200
      Re: Execution using javaw differs from Windows 7 default Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-07-21 19:56 +0200
      Re: Execution using javaw differs from Windows 7 default Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-21 23:36 -0700
      Re: Execution using javaw differs from Windows 7 default Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2012-07-23 01:01 +1000

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