It's not clear to me what you want. However, perhaps the answer to your question lies somewhere in the following explanation of the JDEE usage model.
The usage model on which the JDEE is based is that all commands operate on either the current source file, the current application, or the current project, depending on the command. The JDEE defines the current source file as the source file displayed in the current buffer and the current application or project as the application or project that owns the source file displayed in the current buffer. Thus, for example, if you want to run the current application, you select the JDE->Run App command from the Emacs menubar. To run the application, this command needs to know the source file that contains the application's main method. This may or may not be the source file in the current buffer. Therefore, the JDEE provides the variable jde-run-application-class to allow you to specify the source file that contains the main method for the current application. If this variable is set, the JDEE runs the vm on the specified class. Otherwise, it assumes that the current source file contains the main method and runs the vm on the source file in the current buffer. The question arises: in which directory does the application start. The application starts in the working directory of the process that launched it, which, in this case, is Emacs. By default the Emacs working directory is the directory containing the file displayed in the current buffer. Thus by default applications launched by the JDEE, i.e., Emacs, start in the directory of the current source file. However, the JDEE provides you with a means to specify a working directory for a project, i.e., the jde-run-working-directory variable. If you set this variable, the JDEE switches the Emacs working directory to the specified directory before launching the application. Paul Frankie Y. Liu writes: > How to run from a particular directory? > > Basically I would like to debug from a particular directory. All my > source code resides > on different directories, and I specify paths relative to the root > directory, where there are > no source files. > > A work around that is painful to use, is to open any file in the root > directory, and enter > jde-mode and starting debuging from there. > > In more detail: > > Root/src/org/me/subdir/sourcefile.java > > Where root is the root directory, and where the main file is located > in sourcefile.java. > I specify the source directory as Root/src and all the source files > are found by jde. > > The problem is that everytime I have to start debugging from the root > directory and > I have to switch back and forth between the compilation windows and the > source > windows. It seems it would be better to be able to starting debugging from > any > source file, and have a jde-run(debug)-starting-path variable that would be > used > as the starting directory where debugging would start. > > Thanks, > > -frankie
