[Bug 1474379] Re: Openjdk 7 and 8 don't automatically open jar files

[Sebastien Bacher]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1448548 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1448548

** Tags added: rls-w-incoming

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1448548
   OpenJDK 8 Apt-Get Install Doesn't Generate openjdk-8-java.desktop File

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Title:
  Openjdk 7 and 8 don't automatically open jar files

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in desktop-file-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in openjdk-6 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in openjdk-7 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in openjdk-8 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi

  I made a fresh install today and discovered a bug with java. If you
  have a .jar file (like josm or sweethome3d) and try to open it from
  nautilus it doesn't works : It opens file-roller and you can't choose
  anything else.

  I had openjdk 8 installed, but with a right click to "Open With", It wasn't proposed.
  I installed openjdk 7, same problem.
  I installed openjdk 6 : It worked : Openjdk 6 was proposed.

  I discovered (thanks to http://askubuntu.com/questions/183086/java-
  not-recognized-as-default-application) that Openjdk 7 and 8 dont
  create .desktop files in /usr/share/applications, as Openjdk 6 do
  (openjdk-6-java.desktop). Here is a part of the result of 'ls
  /usr/share/applications' command :

  [...]
  onboard-settings.desktop
  openjdk-6-java.desktop
  openjdk-6-policytool.desktop
  openjdk-7-policytool.desktop
  openjdk-8-policytool.desktop
  orca.desktop
  [...]

  I created openjdk-7-java.desktop and openjdk-8-java.desktop and openjdk-default-java.desktop files with openjdk-6-java.desktop as a model (and keeping openjdk 6 icon as 8 doesn't propose any), and used the following command to exec (just to know exactly What I did) :
  - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java -jar
  - /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java -jar
  - /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java -jar
  - /usr/bin/java -jar

  By default, openjdk 6 uses /usr/bin/java -jar. That meens that the
  Openjdk 6 launcher doesn't launch version 6 but the default version
  from update-alternatives. If you don't have version 6 installed, by
  default you can't launch .jar files.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: desktop-file-utils 0.22-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-22.22-generic 3.19.8-ckt1
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Jul 14 15:14:14 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-14 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=fr_FR
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: desktop-file-utils
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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