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Thank you Richard and Vasudevan.  I took your advice and was able to get my
application running.  For anyone else's interest, I specifically did the
following:

    1.  Set my "PATH" environment variable to include the JBuilder\bin and
java\bin directories.  This is necessary simply to run "jre" or "jrew".
        example:
"%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;C:\JBuilder2\bin;C:\JBuilder2\java\bin"

    2.  Set my "CLASSPATH" environment variable to include all the potential
libraries used by JBuilder and Java.
        example:
".;C:\JBuilder2\lib\jbcl2.0.jar;
C:\JBuilder2\lib\jbcl2.0-res.jar;
C:\JBuilder2\lib\jgl3.1.0.jar;
C:\JBuilder2\lib\swingall.jar;
C:\JBuilder2\lib\datastore2.0.jar;
C:\JBuilder2\lib\datastore2.0-res.jar;
C:\JBuilder2\lib\jcbwt.jar;
C:\JBuilder2\lib\jcchart.jar
C:\JBuilder2\lib\jctable.jar;
C:\JBuilder2\lib\vbjorb.jar;
C:\JBuilder2\lib\vbjapp.jar;
C:\JBuilder2\lib\vbjgk.jar;
C:\JBuilder2\lib\vbjtools.jar;
C:\JBuilder2\samples;
C:\JBuilder2\myclasses;
C:\JBuilder2\myprojects;
C:\JBuilder2\java\lib\classes.zip"

    3.  Set my JAVA_COMPILER environment variable.
        example:  "Javacomp"

    4.  Set my JAVA_HOME environment variable.
        example: "C:\JBuilder2\java"

    5.  Set my JBUILDER_HOME environment variable.
        example: "C:\JBuilder2"

Now I'm finally able to run MY program.  To do so, I need to include the
"ClassPath (-cp)" for all of the libraries that my program uses.  As Richard
and Vasudevan mentioned, their are 2 ways to run.  The first way sends all
system output (including error messages) to the console.  For this, I used
"jre".  The other method doesn't bring up any window other than the windows of
your application.  For this I used "jrew".  An example of my execution follows
below.

jrew -cp
".;\JBuilder2\lib\jbcl2.0.jar;\JBuilder2\lib\jbcl2.0-res.jar;\JBuilder2\lib\jgl3.1.0.jar;\JBuilder2\lib\swingall.jar"
Monopoly.Monopoly

The above example assumes that I've already changed directories to my base
application directory.  The reason that the class [I'm trying to run] is
written as "Monopoly.Monopoly" is that the file "Monopoly.class" is part of
the "Monopoly" PACKAGE.  If I weren't using packages, then I would just write
"Monopoly".

As I am new to Java, somone please correct me if I've mis-stated anything.

-Tom


Vasudevan Srinivasan wrote:

> Hi,
> Instead of javaw.exe try running it with java.exe (or jre.exe): this will
> atleast show the DOS window and the exceptions thrown.
> From the exceptions you can find what is missing. also see what is in your
> classpath. (just type "set" in the commandprompt and you will see the
> contents of classpath).
>
> Goodluck
> Vasu
>
> Tom Heagy wrote:
>
> > Can someone point me to instructions on how to run my JAVA program from
> > outside JBuilder?
> >
> > I've written a GUI application that makes use of a number of different
> > libraries (Swing, JBCL etc) and everything runs fine when I'm in
> > JBuilder, but now I want to be able to run the program without first
> > opening JBuilder.
> >
> > I thought I was just supposed to call [from a DOS command window]
> > "javaw" following by the name of the class containing "main".  When I
> > try this, nothing happens - and I mean NOTHING.  I don't get any error
> > messages or anything.  It simply returns to the command prompt.  It even
> > does this if I don't follow javaw with ANY class name.  What I am doing
> > wrong?
> >
> > -Tom
> > tom.heagy@sciatl.com