Joshua,
I've never done what you are trying to do, but your post reminded me
of this blog post by Ray Kiddy on command line EOF apps.
http://worldofwebobjects.blogspot.com/2006/04/command-line-tool-for-
fetching-with.html
HTH, Kieran
On Feb 16, 2007, at 1:16 AM, Joshua Archer wrote:
> ...admittedly I'm kinda stupid when it comes to constructing jars
> -- if I were to just create a normal jar of my app, how would I
> have to craft it so it picks up all the other jars and libraries,
> etc. that I need as well? I've tried adding everything to the -
> classpath argument, but that doesn't seem to work for me.
>
> On Feb 15, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>
>> I suspect the problem is the structure of your jar. It is not
>> throwing an exception on loading a class, it is throwing it on
>> loading bundle resources. As a start, I'd guess that fat jars and
>> NSBundle are not compatible. If you need the one jar thing, you
>> are probably going to have to write a replacement for NSBundle.
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 15, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Joshua Archer wrote:
>>
>>> hey everyone,
>>>
>>> I've done some searching on the archives, google, etc to try and
>>> find an answer to this problem, but I'm not getting what I'm
>>> after. I thought I'd throw this to the group and see what you
>>> think (or point me to the right archive and tell me to shut up :) ).
>>>
>>> I've created a command line java application that makes use of a
>>> couple of frameworks that access a few EOModels that I use in my
>>> main WO app, for the purposes of initializing data in the
>>> database, creating admin accounts, etc. I've built it in Eclipse,
>>> and as long as I run in eclipse, all is fine with the world.
>>> However, when I try to compile the app as a jar and run it, I get
>>> NSBundle initialization errors:
>>>
>>> tintangel:~/Development jarcher$ java -jar
>>> PachydermAccountGenerator.jar
>>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
>>> at org.pachyderm.PachydermAccountGenerator.main
>>> (PachydermAccountGenerator.java:65)
>>> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>>> at
>>> com.webobjects.foundation.NSBundle.LoadUserAndBundleProperties
>>> (NSBundle.java:640)
>>> at com.webobjects.foundation.NSBundle.<clinit>
>>> (NSBundle.java:367)
>>> ... 1 more
>>>
>>> I've put in lines to the code to show the current bundle info
>>> right up front in the main method, but I think the problem is
>>> that NSBundle won't even initialize when the class is loaded.
>>>
>>> Here's part of the main method:
>>>
>>> public static void main(String[] args) {
>>>
>>> System.out.println("Main.main: main bundle = " +
>>> NSBundle.mainBundle());
>>> System.out.println("Main.main: JavaFoundation bundle = " +
>>> NSBundle.bundleForName("JavaFoundation"));
>>> ....
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> And I've included all the jars locally using fat jar, so the
>>> classes are in the path and available (if not, I'd be seeing
>>> class not defined exceptions).
>>>
>>> Any clue how to get this to work? Are there system variables I
>>> need to set?
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Joshua Archer
>>> Software Engineer
>>> CSU - Center for Distributed Learning
>>> Phone: 707.664.2085
>>> Fax: 707.664.4350
>>>
>>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Joshua Archer
> Software Engineer, CSU - Center for Distributed Learning
> Phone: 707.664.2085, Fax: 707.664.4350
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