Just found out the solution A brief and concise explanation from atmguy. It did work for me.
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5317295 On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Geoffrey Prest <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi Jowel, > > A short answer might be in your file associations. > > The "open" Action for "JAR - Executable Jar File" (My Computer->Tools- > >Folder Options...->File Types) on my Windows XP machine running JRE > 1.6 was initially set by the JRE installer as: > > "C:\java\jre6\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "%1" %* > > After finding an entry at Roedy Green's Canadian Mind Products site, I > found out that ... > > "javaw.exe will hide the console output. To see the console output, > associate java.exe > instead. I always associate with java.exe myself." > - quoted from: http://mindprod.com/jgloss/executablejar.html > > I would suggest reading the page as there is a 23 point walkthrough > regarding this issue. > > I followed the advise in the provided quote (NOT the complete article) > now can double-click an executable JAR file containing a console > program and have it run and display. > > I tested using the complete article and was back to double-clicking > not working. > > Hope this helped, > Geoff > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaprogrammingwithpassion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
