Re: launching application in Windows without DOS commandwindow

    Hi Rich,

    You can go through the jar or Web Start business if you want or need (
and there may be good reasons to do so, ) but to just lose the DOS window,

javaw

is the ticket, just as Phil suggested.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard O. Hammer" <[email protected]>
To: "Java Users Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 9:11 PM
Subject: [Juglist] launching application in Windows without DOS
commandwindow


> Is there an easy way to launch a Java Swing application in Windows 2000
> without opening a DOS command window?
>
> I know that I can make a .bat file containing "java ClassName" and then
> double click on the file name, or create a shortcut to the .bat file,
> but that always seems to open the command window which stays open as
> long as the application is running.
>
> My Googling has found Java Web Start, a lot about Java Web Start.  I've
> started looking at that and it looks like probably it would be easier to
> learn to use Java Web Start for my "hello world" application than it
> would be to get a Masters degree.
>
> But I still imagine that it can be easy.  I am not concerned about
> security.  I am not loading anything over the net.  I just want to start
> my local application with no more hassle than starting Notepad.
>
> Can I create a Windows shortcut that says something like
> java -classpath path1;path2 MyClass
> to the Windows OS, without opening a command window?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich Hammer
>