Running .jar File on Linux - linux

I have a .jar file that reads two files from within its current folder and produces as output a .txt file and a separate folder with multiple other .txt files. This works perfectly in Windows using this code to create the directory:
static String dir = System.getProperty("user.dir");
I used the instructions here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/192914/how-run-a-jar-file-with-a-double-click to set up my .jar file to run on a simple double-click, but as of right now, it does nothing when double-clicked. My guess is that the above line of code does not translate well to Linux. Anybody know how to resolve this?

First, try running it on the command-line, with
java -jar <file.jar>
The user.dir property is cross-platform (see here) so it should not be the problem. However, are you using correct file separators? Remember it's '/' on UNIX and '\' on Windows.

Try java -jar Jarname.jar and pass other files as arguments after this command

The code line you gave works fine on linux.
My best guess is that you're then trying to use this directory path by adding a windows-specific path separator (like path + "\subdir") which isn't appropriate for linux (you should build a new File object instead).
Either that, or your jar file isn't being executed at all. Have you tried doing something very simple in your jar file to see if anything is being run? Have you tried running your jar with java -jar myapp.jar to see if any exceptions are thrown or error messages displayed?

You will need to manually tweak your build process to get the jar file marked as executable. In your build xml file, there is a target, "-post-jar", that is called after the jar is built. You'll need to make that target and use Ant's chmod task to modify your jar. Once you do that it will occur every time you make a jar file in that project.
It will run fine as long as you have a JRE installed.
Read this article to know more.

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How to set RubyMine's default working directory to the executing .rb program's subdirectory?

In RubyMine, I have a project with many subfolders, each of which contains:
One or more standalone single-file executable Ruby programs (.rb files);
An input text file.
In older versions of RubyMine, when running one of the standalone executable programs (via Cmd+Shift+R on my Mac), the default folder in which RubyMine would look for the input file would be the same directory as the .rb file currently being executed -- which worked great.
The code used to read the file is something like:
data = File.readlines('input.txt')
However, after recently updating RubyMine to v2022.3.1, the behavior has changed, such that RubyMines now seems to be looking in the project's root directory for the file, instead of the same subdirectory as the .rb file currently being run. This produces the error:
in `readlines': No such file or directory # rb_sysopen - input.txt (Errno::ENOENT)
To correct this, I've been going into Run (menu) > Edit Configurations; and in the Edit Configurations dialog, in the configuration that RubyMine auto-created for the current executable file, changing the Working Directory value from the default of the project's root directory, to the subfolder of the current .rb file.
However, this above workaround is annoying, since I need to do it once each for every individual one of the many individual .rb executable files in my project.
My question: How can I configure my project and/or RubyMine itself to go back to the older behavior of defaulting a given .rb file to use its own directory as the default Working Directory, instead of the project's root directory?
(This question and/or its solution might also apply to other JetBrains IDEs such as IntelliJ, since they all seem to work similarly.)
The previous behaviour has been changed with https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RUBY-29236. So now yes, the logic is the following:
in case of no Ruby module, project's root will be used
in case of Rails, its home folder
otherwise the module's root
There is no option to change it in RubyMine but you can configure the configuration template using some variable there as Working directory.

How to launch executable embedded within Eclipse plug-in?

I am building an Eclipse plug-in that have to parse the result of an executable (Linux) to display informations to the user. The executable should be embedded in the plug-in, not installed apart.
I first made a small prototype, in which I've embedded a fake executable, then before launching the executable, I extract it into a temporary file, build my command line and then launch it. That worked ok for me.
I've just received the real executable, and then realised it was not a standalone executable, but a bunch of libraries, config files and such. It comes also with a script to execute in order to set env variables.
The only option I am seeing now is to extract the whole bunch to a temp directory, set the environment variables according to the script, and then call my executable.
Is my solution valid ? Do you think of a better way to do it ?
Don't package the plugin as a jar, instead just use a directory so you don't have to do any unpacking.
You specify this using
Eclipse-BundleShape: dir
in the plugin MANIFEST.MF.
Note: if you package your plugins in a feature then this setting is overridden by the unpack="true" attribute of the plugin element in the feature.xml file.

Groovy: How to convert .groovy to .exe

Please, provide simplest way to convert .groovy-script to executable file .exe for windows-platform or .jar, for using on multiply platforms.
Thanks
Jar
This project is a simple card game, written in Groovy. It is uses a Gradle script to build a zip file that can be executed like so:
unzip warO.zip
java -jar warO.jar
See this segment of the build.gradle file to see how the manifest is specified for the jar (i.e. the classpath, main class entry point, etc):
jar.archiveName 'warO.jar'
jar.manifest {
attributes 'Main-Class' : 'net.codetojoy.waro.Main'
attributes 'Class-Path' : 'jars/groovy-all-1.6.4.jar jars/guava-collections-r03.jar jars/guava-base-r03.jar'
}
Exe
For an exe, consider a tool such as JWrapper.

trouble creating an axis 2 .aar file: xml/services not found error

I am trying to create an aar file using OSX 10.7.5 (as a part of this tutorial). To generate the .aar, I navigate to the directory holding my webservice in my eclipse workspace and type
jar cvf FirstWebService.aar ./*
This is the command that Apache says to use to generate the aar in their Code Listing 9 from the apache axis 2 documentation.
The command creates an.aar -- but something is wrong with the process that I am using to create the .aar because when I go to load the .aar file into tomcat's /webapps I get an .xml/services not found error.
I am not sure what to do to fix this error. If I search my computer's file system for the services.xml file, I can find it in /path to eclipse workspace/workspace/MyFirstWebService/WebContent/WEB-INF/services/FirstWebService/META-INF
but I am not sure if this file is supposed to be rolled in to the .aar file somehow or if I can just manually plunk this file somewhere into the apache directory structure to get the thing to run.
Note: I do not think I am manually unzipping or unpacking the aar like in this question. Axis2 web service error: services.xml not found I am just running the command listed above from the apache documentation.
Here is the .aar file
note I am using all of the same versions of the software as in the tutorial -- but I am using OSX 10.7.5 where they use windows in the tutorial. Accordingly, I have changed the make-aar command for windows shown in the tutorial (jar cvf FirstWebService.aar com META-INF) into the one shown above. If I just try to run the command from the tutorial jar cvf FirstWebService.aar com META-INF I get the same xml/services not found error. It gives this output in the terminal...
com: no such file or directory
META-INF: no such file or directory
added manifest
I found the issue. When you type the command to create the aar file you have to be in the directory .../EclipseWorkspace/EclipseProjectName/WebContent/WEB-INF/services. This directory contains /META-INF/services.xml. The process that makes the .aar file must be looking in this folder.

jd-gui stops working when I try to save all resources

I opened a jar file in jd-gui but when I try to save the all resources it stops working. I don't know where to look for the logs of jd-gui.
How can I save all the decompiled source files?
I met the same problem, and resoled it as below:
unzip the target jar file.
remove unnecessary folder
zip the remaining class files into a new-small jar file.
download the jd-cli project from here: https://github.com/kwart/jd-cli/releases/tag/jd-cli-1.2.0
use jd-cli to de-compile the jar , and with the log option, e.g.
jd-cli target.jar -od jar_result -g ALL
check the output log and find out which block.class file block the de-compile proccess. if there is, then remove it from the target.jar and then re-run the jd-cli again. You can manually copy/paste the block.class source code from jd-gui.
Open "jd-gui.cfg" with a text editor. "LastUri", in section "Decompilation", contains the name of the CLASS file causing the crash. A workaround is to open the JAR file and remove or change extension of this CLASS file.
Regards.
It seems a bug. I solved it simply trying to export sources to other folder ($home -using debian-)

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