Re: Wrapping java calls in host system executables

From:
Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:06:10 +0100
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<8h0842Frn3U1@mid.individual.net>
On 05/10/10 02:43, Lew wrote:

Stefan Ram wrote:

javac

   has been implemented for a long time: The compiler is
   written in Java, but the call uses a native executable
   wrapper for this.

   So, what I am looking for is some example code for this.
   Maybe someone has already published a generic wrapper code
   in C or C++ under the GPL to be used in such cases?


Nigel Wade wrote:

Surely it's called the shell.

In UNIX/Linux you can use a shell alias.
You could also use a shell script containing the necessary java command
line, call the script "jdir" and make it executable.

In Windows land I have no idea if there is a concept similar to the
shell alias. But you do have the .bat script which serves the same
function as the executable shell script.


Donkey Hottie wrote:

Indeed, that is how ant is implemented in Windows and Unix.


Also Maven, WebLogic, ...


NetBeans, Eclipse, Firefox...

In fact, it's probably harder to find an installed application which
directly runs a binary executable (or jar) rather than a shell startup
script.

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