tim's mails would be 1/10 in length if he would not repeat the same questions over and over again ;o) nothing to be said against sensible questions, but, tim, if you want to be a good developer, learn to boil down your thoughts to the crucial point(s)...
> 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! 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