Jar Launcher Mac

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So, I double click on my jar file and it just blinks a window with white screen then it disappears. After that, I right-click and select 'Open with jar launcher' it is the same. too. I opened up Terminal and type java -jar 'System FRONT.jar' then it opened up perfectly.

Jar Launcher is the program in Mac OS X that launches Java JAR files into the Aqua/Java runtime environment when the JAR file is double clicked. Jar Launcher also launches a class in the same manner. Jar Launcher does not execute the Java files itself, rather it passes them to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with any.

I want it to be opened directly when double clicking it! How do I do that?

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You can prepend a short script to the .jar to make it executable via double click. In Terminal do the following:

Double-clicking executable_app should now launch the application.

Why does this work in the first place? Well, a .jar is just a .zip archive which gets unpacked and executed by java. And the zip format allows to prepend additional stuff in front of the actual archive. Any zip unarchiver skips this part until it finds the start of the archive (indicated by PK..).

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The best way to make a java gui application work with OSX is to bundle it as an application. This requires Jar Bundler.app which on Lion is at /usr/share/java/Tools/Jar Bundler.app. I think it is installed as part of Xcode but appears not to be in Apple's current documentation so might not now be supported. Old documentation is here

There do appear to be ant tasks to do this in appbundler which is documented in the Oracle JavaSE documentation.

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You can use packr to package up your jar for easy distribution and double-clicking to open: Vmware 5.5 standalone converter download.

Packages your JAR, assets and a JVM for distribution on Windows (ZIP), Linux (ZIP) and Mac OS X (.app), adding a native executable file to make it appear like the app is a native app. Packr is most suitable for GUI applications, such as games made with libGDX

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packr has been discussed on Hacker News and is an open source project.

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