Java executables

[captainmnb]

I've created a small Java program, and I currently run it with

java ClassName
or I suppose I could pretty easily package it in a JAR and run it with

java -jar whatever.jar

What I would like to do, however, is somehow make it so that I could put it in /usr/bin and run it straight from the terminal (it's a console-based program) with a single directory-independent call to the program's name. Is this possible with Java (and for a beginner) on Ubuntu?

[myrtle1908]

Somewhere along the line you need to refer to the java executable to run your program. Why don't you create a shell script to run your program? If the shell script is in your PATH then you can just call it from the terminal eg.


./runmyjavaprog.sh