Ever wish you could set CLASSPATH=c:\someDir\*.jar ? 1

jpinkham — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:50:20 +0000

Here's a nifty trick I often use for testing.

Lets say you have a c:\foo\lib directory full of jarfiles for log4j, javamail...whatever.

Modern J2EE containers do a nice job of letting you deploy a jarfile with your code and have a lib directory full of jarfiles like this, but what if you just want to run a quick client from the command line?

Here's what you do:

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Ever wish you could set CLASSPATH=c:\someDir\*.jar ? 1