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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

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Java programms as pkgs? how?

what would be the best way to make a java application a pkg for archlinux?

e.g. i want to make a pkg for jemboss (frontend to emboss - http://www.rfcgr.mrc.ac.uk/Software/EMB … index.html )
but made as pkg (so that if installed, you can just type java jemboss and run it)

or Kandid ( http://kandid.sourceforge.net/ )

or other java apps

would it be enough just to copy the jar-files to /opt/j2re/lib/ext ? any experts? what would Dusty say?

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kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

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Re: Java programms as pkgs? how?

also azureus!!! (bittorrent client)

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wdemoss

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From: WV - USA

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: Java programms as pkgs? how?

what would be the best way to make a java application a pkg for archlinux?

e.g. i want to make a pkg for jemboss (frontend to emboss - http://www.rfcgr.mrc.ac.uk/Software/EMB … index.html )
but made as pkg (so that if installed, you can just type java jemboss and run it)

or Kandid ( http://kandid.sourceforge.net/ )

or other java apps

would it be enough just to copy the jar-files to /opt/j2re/lib/ext ? any experts? what would Dusty say?

I don't think the jars would best be put in /opt/j2re/lib/ext. This muddles the jdsdk package in my opinion and leads to package version conflicts amoung different packages. Perhaps it would best be put in something like /usr/lib/java1.4/site-packages or something like python.

You would have to be sure that gets put on the path, but I don't think it would be good to put them in a system wide classpath, so that seperate projects with differnet jar versions don't conflict (very hard to debug).

Perhaps a java-run script or something? Used like: java-run jemboss and it would look for jemboss.jar in the site packages or something.

Just some ideas,
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Xentac

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Re: Java programms as pkgs? how?

Check out cgoban2.  It's a simple program, but that's how I did it.

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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

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Re: Java programms as pkgs? how?

It seems to me the best way would simply be to write a script that does it all - puts the jars on the calsspath and then runs the main class...

Put that script on the path and you're away...

dp

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Re: Java programms as pkgs? how?

Check out cgoban2.  It's a simple program, but that's how I did it.

i had a look ...

mainly it's a script in /usr/bin that runs /usr/share/$pkgname/$pkg.jar

sounds really logical to me

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yak8998

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Registered: 2004-03-01

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Re: Java programms as pkgs? how?

cgoban2 is a good idea, I don't think theres a really logical way to have actual java packages without doing a bunch of fancy stuff...

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