Re: Executing a jar file from RPG

Actually, you can make a JAR executable by referencing a class in the
Manifest file with the Main-Class:. I suppose that doesn't really matter
here, because I don't think that makes a difference in RPG. I don't think
you can have a JAR "auto-execute" in RPG.
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James R. Perkins


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 09:47, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Peter,

A JAR file is not much more than a ZIP file containing a bunch of Java
class files. The JAR file itself is not executable, *but* you can run
the classes inside the JAR file (without unzipping them).

So you will need to know the Java class name to run. This would be true
if you were executing it from Java or anywhere else as well... nothing
to do with RPG. It's just the way JAR files were designed.


Peter Connell wrote:

The library website at boulder seems to be down at the mo.

Has anyone had the need to run java from RPG thru a jar file?

I have a java product for which the instruction is to launch by running
a jar file directly as opposed to a java class.

The i5 supports this technique via the JAVA cmd which will accept either
a class or jar.

But is there a way to implement this from RPG similar to calling the
Main method of a java class.

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