[Biojava-dev] Putting JVM options in a Manifest file??

[Mark Schreiber]

Interesting point.  I've always thought of JNLP as a way to distribute and
start software from a server but I guess there's no reason why you can't use
it as a platform independent startup script for launching from a local file
system.

Don't suppose you have an example?

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Mark Fortner <phidias51 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I hit "Reply" instead of "Reply All".  For the rest of you on the
> list, here's my response.
>
>
> You could try using a JNLP file to launch your application.  You can stick
> it in the same directory as your jar file.  The user would double click to
> launch it.  You can specify startup parameters in the JNLP file as well.
>
> The other thing you could do is use jrunscript (a javascript engine that
> runs in the jvm and ships with java).  Your script would then set the
> parameter before invoking the main class found in your jar.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Mark Schreiber <markjschreiber at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi -
>>
>> Does anyone know if it is possible to put a JVM option into the Manifest
>> of
>> a Jar file?  Essentially, I want to hack the JAR file to set the proxy but
>> I
>> don't want to have to recompile the Main class. I also don't want to
>> create
>> various .bat .sh files for different operating systems.
>>
>> I'm trying to replicate this behaivour (but without doing it from command
>> line) for a self executing JAR ...
>>
>>
>> java -Djava.net.useSystemProxies=true -jar someJar.jar
>>
>> ie I want someJar.jar to find and use the configured system proxy
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