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Netbeans JAR file execution from command line
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| Luc The Perverse 2006-10-30, 7:32 pm |
| I needed to run a program I created called RandomPasswordGen and it wouldn't
run because it said it couldn't find some necessary classes, which I tracked
down to some swing layout jar file in netbeans.
Eventually I copied all the netbeans files into the sun java directory. I
have a feeling that is not the standard way of going about this.
How can I prevent a compatibility problem? I like to send people JAR files
to execute, and don't want them to have to have netbeans installed and
certainly don't want them to have to copy files from netbeans to java class
path.
What is the proper way to go about this?
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LTP
:)
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| Andrew Thompson 2006-10-30, 7:32 pm |
| Luc The Perverse wrote:
> I needed to run a program I created called RandomPasswordGen and it wouldn't
> run because it said it couldn't find some necessary classes, which I tracked
> down to some swing layout jar file in netbeans.
>
> Eventually I copied all the netbeans files into the sun java directory. I
> have a feeling that is not the standard way of going about this.
>
> How can I prevent a compatibility problem? I like to send people JAR files
> to execute, and don't want them to have to have netbeans installed and
> certainly don't want them to have to copy files from netbeans to java class
> path.
>
> What is the proper way to go about this?
'proper'? Dunno'.. here are several possible strategies..
- Rework your GUI's to not require the NB classes (which
are usually form generators? ..layouts?).
- Launch your GUI's using web start and refer to the
NB classes in a separate 'component' JNLP *.
- Put a manifest in the main jar that references the NB jars*
(and distribute them with your application, and put them
somewhere they can be found)
- Rejar the NB classes* in your main jar file.
* check NB docs. for (re)distrib. rights.
I would go for the first option.
Andrew T.
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| Lion-O 2006-10-30, 7:32 pm |
| > How can I prevent a compatibility problem? I like to send people JAR
> files to execute, and don't want them to have to have netbeans
> installed and certainly don't want them to have to copy files from
> netbeans to java class path.
Which NB version?
Normally NetBeans will put the compiled jar and all libraries it might
need in the 'dist' subdirectory of your projects home. Extra libraries
are stored in the dist/lib subdirectory. Also refer to the 'README.TXT'
file which explains as much.
The manifest file in the jar defines a classpath which includes optional
jar files in the lib subdirectory.
If those files aren't there then I wonder if your project has been
properly setup.
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Groetjes, Peter
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| Luc The Perverse 2006-10-30, 7:32 pm |
| "Lion-O" <nosp@m.catslair.org> wrote in message
news:slrnek1udu.5cb.nosp@ubuntu.intranet.lan...
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> Which NB version?
>
> Normally NetBeans will put the compiled jar and all libraries it might
> need in the 'dist' subdirectory of your projects home. Extra libraries
> are stored in the dist/lib subdirectory. Also refer to the 'README.TXT'
> file which explains as much.
>
> The manifest file in the jar defines a classpath which includes optional
> jar files in the lib subdirectory.
>
> If those files aren't there then I wonder if your project has been
> properly setup.
In that case I likely just grabbed the wrong JAR file (and because it worked
on my system, I was thrown off)
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LTP
:)
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