Re: Debian java howto for sarge?

[Christian Leimer <christian_leimer@web.de>]

Blake Swadling wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 17:14, Wim De Smet wrote:
>> > And how do I get .jar files to work by doubleklickind under kde 3.2.3?
>> > Are there maybe some security problems?
>> 
>> There's probably some sort of configuration dialog in KDE to establish
>> a relationship between filetypes and programs. Find it and add jar to
>> it. The command to be executed should probably be "java -jar"
> Note that this will only work for jars that are "executable" (ie have a
> Main-Class entry in their manifest). It will not be spectacularly
> successful for those jar files that are missing this entry in their
> manifest
> 
> I wrap it in a script like this ...
> 
> <snip>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> 
> #check that we have a jar file on the command line
> $jar_file="$ARGV[0]";
> if ( "$jar_file" eq "" ) {
>   &usage;
> } else {
>   system("java -jar $jar_file") && system("gdialog  --msgbox \"Jar file
> \"$jar_file\" is not executable\n\" 100 100");
> }
> 
> #report usage info
> sub usage
> {
>  system("gdialog --msgbox \"usage: run-jar.pl foo.jar\" 100 100");
> }
> </snip>
> 
Thanks. I try that if I got java to work.