call java program from script?

[david lightman]

I am a linux newbie but I want to call java program from a shell script

it is a bash shell and is it also possible to pass variables to the java program when it is called?

thanks

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Sure., Just run the program as "java ClassName arg1 arg2 ...", where ClassName is the name of the main class, and arg1, etc, are the command-line arguments to the program. There are, of course, class path issues, etc, but this is the basic idea.

[Dale Seng]

You can also launch a jar file, provided it has a manifest that points to the class where the main method is:

java -jar myJarToLaunch

--Dale--