Name: tb29552 Date: 10/02/98


1.
a. Install JRE in a non-standard location (say,
in F:\Program Files instead of C:\Program Files

b. Create an "executable jar file"

c. Double click on the jar file.

3. Windows cannot find Program.exe. This
program is needed for opening files of type
'Executable Jar file'


The installation registers .jar with the command
line:
C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.2\bin\javaw.exe -jar

This line has two errors: i) It didn't take into
account the actual location of the installation
of the JRE. ii) It omits the double quote around
the full pathname of javaw.exe, which is necessary
to accommodate the embedded space in the full
pathname.
(Review ID: 36265)
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Name: yyT116575 Date: 02/26/2001


java version "1.3.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0-C)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0-C, mixed mode)

The windows j2re1_3_0-win.exe installation creates the following key in the windows registry:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\jarfile\shell\open\command

with the default value of type REG_SZ:

<JAVA_ROOT>\bin\javaw.exe -jar %1

As a result, if the absolute path of a *.jar file has spaces in the long folder
names, double-clicking* the jar file will not launch the executable.

*Note: Right-click -> Open ... won't work either the user will have to execute from the commandline.
(Review ID: 117710)
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Name: boT120536 Date: 03/09/2001


JRE/JDK 1.3, 1.3_01, 1.3.1-beta b15, 1.2.2
JRE both international and US english

Note: This bug has been submitted several times before by me and others. I now
have additional information from news forums. It could be an OS language
dependent problem.

Variations of this bug report have been submitted before as bug #4232527. I
submitted it twice and got reviews with IDs #116057 and #116898. This bug
report is also related to bug #4178354 which reports the error with missing
quotes around javaw.exe.

I requested help from JDC forum "Java Archive (JAR) files" and comp.lang.java
for English Windows, and de.comp.lang.java for German Windows. Three people
with english OS could not reproduce the problem. Six replies in
de.comp.lang.java reproduced the problem on German Windows. I appended their
feedback below.

As I invested a lot of time to help you, it would be nice, to trust me and all
the people who reproduced the bug, that it is one :-)

  Description:
The JDK/JRE-Installation under MS-Windows registers
a file association for the extension 'JAR' with
an 'open'-action that reads:
<JRE-installtion path>\bin\javaw.exe -jar %1
It should read:
"<JRE-installation path>\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "%1"


Find my request and responsed in comp.lang.java and JDC JAR forum with subject
"[Win] Help Sun to reproduce a nasty bug"
and in de.comp.lang.java with subject
"[Win] Helft Sun einen l?stigen Fehler zu reproduzieren"

Feedback from users:
Bob Campbell <###@###.###> could not reproduce it
"Using Windows NT 4.0 Server and jdk1.3"

James Korman <###@###.###> could not reproduce it on
"Windows 98 4.10.1998 English Compaq OEM"

Andreas Schr?ter <###@###.###> reproduced it on
WinNT 4.0 (german), JDK 1.2.2.
and
Win98 SE (JDK 1.2.2)

Dirk Wellmann <###@###.###>
"reprocuded it under W2K-German JDK 1.3"

Roger Schuster <###@###.###>
"Windows 98, 2. Edition and JDK 1.3.0_01"

Andreas Senft <###@###.###>
"NT4.0 (german), Sun JDK 1.3"

Holger J?dicke <###@###.###>
"Yes, with 'e:\test' it works, with 'e:\my test' it doesn't work.
German Win NT 4 SP 4, JDK 1.3."

The only irritating feedback is in JDC. User 'Warith' reported:
"Yes, I have had this happen repeatedly on standard US English installations of
Windows 9X."

I hope to hear from you. And I hope you could just add the missing quotes.
(Review ID: 118475)
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