Adding a jar file to CLASSPATH is still not executable
- by Simon O'Hanlon
Perhaps I just don't understand how the whole CLASSPATH environment variable works when trying to find .jar files on your system. I thought if you specified it, you could launch .jar files with java in much the same way that you can launch executables that are on your path.
I have an executable java archive (.jar file) on my system, that I stuck…