I'm sure this guy is just winding everyone up with his questions. He surely can write has he tried reading???
Tim , Here's an exercise. 1. Write a program in any language you like and accept input from a list of emails passed as parameters and work out how many words there are in total,allow the user to enter his reading rate in words per minute and calculate the time taken to read all the emails. Allow the user to enter a charge rate in hours and work out how much it has cost him to read the emails. 2.Run said program against all your emails. Alan , Please Moderate!!!! -----Original Message----- From: Tim Nicholson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 1:16 PM To: JDJList Subject: [jdjlist] getting a java program to be "standalone" ???? Ok, I have gotten a few replies on the question of as to how one can get a java written program to run without having constantly to be tied up to the software that compiles it. I should admit, I haven't had the time as yet to read some of the longer web pages that I was referred to on this subject yet. So please forgive me for that. I am just wanting to know breifly the following :- we all presumably write programs predominantly in java code, but I guess it could be written in C, C++ or perhaps Delphi. And we write these programs presumably for some company to solve a business problem. Like for example, we might find that we need to write a program in java code that is to co-ordinate a travel agent business let's say...maybe for FlightCentre ??? So we come to the point where we have to write the code for the system that will document custiomers of FlightCentre and we want to set this software up in the FlightCentre head office in Sydney let's say. How do all of you get the software for this example system ready for the client ? Assuming you have written all the code in java, how do you get it so that it is ready for the client ? I assume that the client is not going to have to compile the code each time so that they can use it to run their business ? >From what I know, when you compile the java program, it becomes a different sort of file as a result of the process ? What file does it become ? The reason why I mentioned ".exe" files is because, it appears that this sort of file is ready to go. In the old DOS system, you would just type in the name of the file and push enter and teh file would run. So basically I am talking about the situation where the file or in fact the whole system which you finished writing in java code for example, is "ready to go". Now some of you have said that it is perhaps a "bad idea" to make a jav file into an "executable" or a "native executable" , perhaps the biggest reason being because that it makes the resulting file a much bigger one. So then I would take it that usually this is not the way that all of you get the file you have written to be ready for the client ? I only mentioned the ".exe" part because I was trying to get across the idea that I am wanting to know what happens when you have completed writing your program/system for the client in java code and now you want to get it so that the user (your customer) is able, through the easiest way possible, and through the way that you all normally do this (ie if you don't normally make java files into .exe files for this then don't mention that) to run the program on their computers and just get it to open ? Like I suppose in a Windows operating system that usually how it works is that you open Windows Explorer or perhaps you have an icon for this particualr program that you have written in java, and either way you just double click on the file that your arrow is on and that gets the file to run. So how do you get a java written program so that it is ready to run and ready for the client to use ? In what form does the java written file need to be so that it is ready for the client to use after you have finished writing it ? I have not been taught yet how to do this, but it is a question that I'm sure is very important in the software development process. I have recieved a few emails from people on my previous email yesterday on the subject of ".exe" files, but it would appear from some of the replies that I got, that this is not the usual way people go about getting the programs they have written ready for their customer. So then how do you do this ? And how would you do it if the program had been written in a different language like C or C++ ? ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
