X-Received: by 10.13.212.147 with SMTP id w141mr3253504ywd.42.1463773795923; Fri, 20 May 2016 12:49:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.4.120 with SMTP id 111mr52970otc.15.1463773795885; Fri, 20 May 2016 12:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!11no5387312qgt.0!news-out.google.com!l67ni796ith.0!nntp.google.com!i5no10369889ige.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 12:49:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=199.16.140.26; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.16.140.26 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <48151d88-e677-40e1-a09f-da65d09a44cf@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: clickable jars From: Lew Injection-Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 19:49:55 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Received-Bytes: 1822 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3729159641 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:34351 On Friday, May 20, 2016 at 12:35:24 PM UTC-7, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2016 11:28:42 -0700, Roedy Green wrote: > > > Has anyone got jar to be clickable in windows 10? > > > An obvious question, which I| haven't seen you answer yet is: does the > jarfile have a manifest file and, if so, does its MainClass name the > class to be started? > > I'm not even slightly a W10 user, but it is required on a Linux system > for the command "java -jar /path/to/jarfile.jar" to work. > exit http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/jar/appman.html http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jar/jarGuide.html http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/windows/jar.html -- Lew