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Comment on Self executing jar files by laurent kubaski

laurent kubaski — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:40:28 +0000

Fernando: it’s OK to smack me if that makes you feel better, but you will then also need to smack people building software like Intellij or Eclipse or Netbeans… which are all launched using native .exe files on Windows.

Also, double clicking a .jar file will only launch it if the JRE has been correctly installed and configured. If not: NOTHING happens and the user has no way to know what went wrong.

Compare this with an .exe wrapper that checks if a JRE is installed and that will display a meaningful error dialog if that’s the case.

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Rheinhardt — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:37:54 +0000

Uninstalling my antivirus program Virusbarrier fixed the problem

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Comment on Self executing jar files by Luigi

Luigi — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:54:37 +0000

Fernando, if your users are fine with ‘java -jar’ or they use superior OSes, good for you. But there is no need to play the taliban of the cross-platform.

Being cross-platform is just a feature of the language; if you don’t need it, just use the rest.

Comment on Self executing jar files by Fernando Cassia

Fernando Cassia — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:41:04 +0000

Laurent,

I want to smack you with a large cluebat. People who insist on packing Java apps with native wrappers are negating the best part about Java: Cross-platform binaries (.jar files).

And to the author of this post: it’s not a problem of Java if .jar files are not executed automagically, it’s a problem of misconfiguration of the OS.

On Windows, you doublt-click on a .Jar file and it starts.

So why not fix Gnome and KDE so that clicking on a .JAR automagically invokes openjdk’s java -jar %appname ?

People who package their java apps with native wrappers make me lose respect of them fairly quickly. They don’t understand what Java is about…

Also mandatory should be the use of One-Jar…

http://one-jar.sourceforge.net/
FC

Comment on Self executing jar files by laurent kubaski

laurent kubaski — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:49:35 +0000

I’m not following you: first you say that you “always felt bad about the fact that we have to provide a shell script which runs the executable jar file”… and you then describe a solution where you provide a shell script to run a jar file ?

Did I miss something ? ;-)

On Windows, we would use a Java wrapper like WinRun4j. In the end, you would end up with an .exe file so that your program can be launched like every Windows binary: no command line to type, no .bat file to execute, just double click !

That’s the approach taken by Intellij for example

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Comment on Self executing jar files by Joeri Sykora

Joeri Sykora — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:38:43 +0000

Thanks for the cool trick. I just tried it on windows 7 and I can confirm that it works as you described.

Comment on Maven: Class ‘org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository’ cannot be instantiated by Tim | The Way Things Work

Tim | The Way Things Work — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:41:51 +0000

In my case, the I’m doing this through Hudson/Jenkins but when I specify the “release version” to do a “tag”, it still gets the branch number and increments that. Annoying!