How do I run *.jar rpogram

[Christian Hauser]

Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I have installed JRE 1.5_2 from sun site. Installation seems to have gone
> well. I presume once JRE is installed, I should automatically be able to
> run
> any java program. I have downloaded Azureus bittorrent client in *.jar
> form.
> it doesn't run.
> 
> how do i set up my environment to run this program ? could any body
> suggest?

To run a Java program packaged as JAR file (which is nothing but a ZIP 
file) run the following command:

java -jar myjar.jar

To do so the <JAVA_HOME>/bin directory must be in the path.

HTH,
   Christian