How to create a bat file to run a executable jar

[Sindhu Kodoor]

Hi ,

I am sorry if this topic is already raised somewhere else, I did search few places dint get this one, kindly help me write a bat file to run a simple executable jar file, I did start to write with the basic commands tutorial from the internet, I am not sure how to give the location of the jar file in the .bat :

set JAVA_HOME=C:\Tools\DTK\IBM\SDP\runtimes\base_v61\java

set PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\CollabNet\Subversion Client;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere MQ\Java\lib;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere MQ\Java\lib64;
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;"C:\Program Files (x86)\PKWARE\PKZIPC\"
;C:\notes;C:\Program Files (x86)\Attachmate\EXTRA!\;C:\Tools\DTK\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Tools\DTK\apache-maven-2.2.1\bin;C:\Tools\DTK\apache-ant-1.7.0\bin;C:\Tools\DTK\IBM\SDP\jdk\bin;C:\Tools\DTK\IBM\SDP\runtimes\base_v61\java;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere MQ\bin64;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere MQ\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere MQ\tools\c\samples\bin;C:\IBM_DB2\SQLLIB\BIN;C:\IBM_DB2\SQLLIB\FUNCTION;C:\Program Files (x86)\SlikSvn\bin\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Application Virtualization Client

set CLASSPATH=

java -jar D:\Proof OF concept material\jars\test.jar Hello World

The above code does not work, as it says

Unable to located test.jar

Kindly help me with this...

[William Brogden]

I suspect the spaces in the path are causing the bat file command line to be misinterpreted. Rename that "Proof OF" ...etc directory without spaces.

Generally speaking, paths with spaces cause nothing but trouble in Java.

Note that if you are executing this bat file from a Java program with exec() you will have to consume the std out and std err streams created by the Process - see java.lang.Process javadocs.

Bill

[Sindhu Kodoor]

Thanks for your reply, I had missed out one line

cd <<location path of the jar file>>

, now it works....