Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:13:50 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:36918 On 7/13/2017 6:11 PM, Rhino wrote: > I have one more symptom to add to the list: I can't execute jars any > more, at least not from the desktop. > > I recently downloaded a bunch of JavaFX sample apps and put them on a > folder which I can access from my desktop. Among the sample apps are > Ensemble.jar. Before Eclipse started giving me trouble, I could just > click on a jar and it would launch the application in the jar and > execute cleanly. Now, nothing happens when I click on the jars in that > folder, nothing at all. > > I've forgotten exactly what happens under the covers when you click on a > jar - which JDK or JRE it tries to use but I only have one of each, both > at the 1.8.0.1331 level. That should be sufficient, shouldn't it? Is JAVE_HOME\bin in PATH? Does \Windows\System32 have the copies of java.exe, javaw.exe and javaws.exe, that it is supposed to have? Arne PS: I assumed Windows.