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clickable jars

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	clickable jars
Date	2016-05-20 11:28 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
Message-ID	<uklujb91cpbrk168agqqm8mh88ag8icaff@4ax.com> (permalink)

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Has anyone got jar to be clickable in windows 10?

i.e.  type  xxx.jar on the command line and have it execute with
javaw.exe or java.exe

If you have W10-32 and W10-64, you can reinstall the JRE or JDK which
will set up a link from jars to that jvm. Then use regedit.exe to find
the jar link to javaw.exe in the registry, and modify it to java.exe.
The link looks like this: Computer : HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT : jarfile :
shell : open : command : "C:\Program
Files\java\jre1.8.0_92\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "%1" %*. Or you can run
under administrator filetype jarfile= "C:\Program
Files\java\jre1.8.0_92\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "%1" %* at a command
prompt. Do not put the command in a bat file or the " and % quoting
will confuse it. Then run under administrator assoc .jar=jarfile
Though in theory this should work, I cannot get it to. I always get an
error message like this Error: Could not find or load main class
E:\mindprod\applet\xxx.jar

Just plain reinstalling the JRE does not work for me either.  All the
registry entries look fine, but they don't launch.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.
~ Bertrand Meyer (born:1950 age 65)

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clickable jars Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2016-05-20 11:28 -0700
  Re: clickable jars Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-05-20 19:31 +0000
    Re: clickable jars Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 12:49 -0700
      Re: clickable jars Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2016-05-20 13:00 -0700
    Re: clickable jars Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2016-05-20 12:55 -0700
  Re: clickable jars Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2016-05-23 09:25 +0100
  Re: clickable jars Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-07-06 14:13 -0700

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