RE: Follow up to the Java Applet Question. -- JAVA400-L

Thanks for the help Brad, Bob, and everyone else!

The JAVAW worked great!!  Being able to click on a icon and have our Java
programs run, with out that ugly little MS-DOS window popping up is great!!
Thanks also about the info on the JAR file, I have begun reading up on using
JAR files and it seems like a great feature.

Brad (or anyone else) -
One quick follow up question, we are using Java 1.2.  And we could not find
the "JRE" or "JREW" command.  But while doing some research into the JAR
files, I saw a note saying that starting with Java 1.2, you could now
execute a JAR file from the "JAVA" command, where you could not earlier.
Since 1.2 now supports this feature, did Sun get rid of the JRE function.
Or does it still have a separate purpose?

Again thanks for the help, we had been banging our heads over that first
question for a while.

Thanks,
Richard Dean


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-java400-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-java400-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Brad Grier
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 2:05 PM
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Follow up to the Java Applet Question.


If you don't want to run your Java program with a DOS console, use JAVAW or
JREW instead of JAVA or JRE. These commands launch the Java interpreter
without the console. You could then make a Windows shortcut that calls JAVAW
directly.

You can also put your application into a JAR file that can be run just by
clicking on it. Unfortunately, that's beyond the scope of this document. :)

Brad Grier
Linoma Sofware

Surveyor/400 - The Java AS/400 file editor and explorer:
http://www.linomasoftware.com


----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Dean <rddean@gdi.net>
To: <JAVA400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 10:52 AM
Subject: Follow up to the Java Applet Question.


>
> We are in the very early stages of research(time measured in days not
> months) into using Java on our AS/400's.  And the first thing that really
> concerns us is running Java clients on our PC's.  We have not explored any
> tools, like Visual Java, yet!  So this may be a mute point.  The only
thing
> we have played around with is the free Java stuff from Sun and we realize
> that there are more programmer friendly compilers out there, but what
about
> executing a Java Client application on the PC(Windows 95/98).
> Questions:
> 1. Is there any way around running the Java application out of MS-Dos
> Window?  It hurts the selling point when presenting to users and mangers
> 2. Is it better to create Java applets and let a browser handle question
#1?
> We were leaning toward applications, but again I can honestly say we have
> not done enough research to make an educated decision.
>
> Thanks for any advice in advance,
>
> Richard
>
>
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