Setting the classpath

Question

hi i have written one shell script which is performing 1 task.

java -jar abc.jar $* -adminid $j_username

before this command i want to set classpath(or want to refer) of all jars which are in particular lib folder, how to do that?

Answer 1

set CLASSPATH=pathtojars1;pathtojars2

before your java command.

Or:

java -classpath 

Answer 2

One way to do it would be:

set CP=abc.jar:someother.jar
java -cp $CP your.main.Class $* -adminid $j_username

It is worth while to note that when using -jar you can't specify other JARs/resources on the classpath i.e. -cp switch is ignored hence you would have to choose between the two.

• Create a standalone JAR which incorporates other JARs/resources
• Have different JAR files but instead of using -jar specify the main class when running the program