<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello every1,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Let me first say, I dont use Ubuntu, use Debian occasionally, well whats actually happened is I figured out how to get it going, set up SAMBA etc etc... and its been reunning for years... I've completely forgotten how to use it, because it just doesnt break... thats the problem with linux ;)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway... busy developing the product below... and I get questions from UBUNTU people...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd like to add the precise instructions to the product, so they can get going.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The problem is that Java JAR files are both Archives and Executables.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ubuntu seems to be set up so that a JAR looks like a ZIP file.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A java executable runs with the comand line</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>java -jar %1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ie if the %1 is a Java file the application starts....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One does have to question the wisdom of Sun make file.jar behave as both but thats how it is.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So... what I'm looking for is the basic instructions to set up ubuntu so that if a user clicks on a JAR file</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the thing runs...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The area I'm really nor sure about is the relationship between the Desktop and the Browser mime type..</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I remember on Debian it was always a mission getting Mozilla and Gnome to do the same thing...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hopefully Ubuntu is smarter than that....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So how to make Click on JAR run... on ubuntu in Firefox and default Desktop (looks like its KDE from emails)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I dont reply immediately, its because our government has managed to plunge the country into darkness ;)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Didnt build enuf power stations, or more likely sold power they didnt have... idiots!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you see this from a SAcan... </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BBSFG it means ( Be Back Soon Fueling Genereator ;)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>HARBOR: <A href="http://coolharbor.100free.com/index.htm">http://coolharbor.100free.com/index.htm</A><BR>The best application server on earth<BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>