On Sep 10, 2005, at 10:34 AM, Thomas DeGregorio wrote:
In class I'm taking a JAVA programming class, however, of coarse I
never programmed in JAVA before and I can't seem to figure out how
to start a project with xcode. My text book and prof. say that JAVA
applications are extension java, then once compiled they're
extension class. Now All I see in xcode is extension JAR files. I
have no clue what those are, but they're not what I'm looking for.
Does anyone code JAVA applications, that I can tell me how to
create a project from xcode properly? Unless I have to download a
xcode plugin, I'm just not sure what to do.
Thanks for all help,
Tom
A .jar file is a Zip file full of .class files. If you know the main
class's name, you can run it from Terminal with:
java -jar TheJarFile.jar YourMainClassName
Or you can just do Build->Build & Run (Cmd-R) from within Xcode and
it should run the Java project for you if it's properly set up.
To create a proper Java project in Xcode, use the Java Tool project
type. If you need any third-party libraries (probably not this early
in the class), that's where Xcode gets a little tricky, and why many
don't like it for Java development. There are other IDEs that are
better for Java programming (BlueJ, JBuilder, Netbeans, Eclipse), or
as suggested, use a nice text editor (may want to consider jEdit
(http://www.jedit.org)) and the terminal.
Good luck,
Logan Allred
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