.jar help

[guitardenver]

So i've wrote many programs in java but never ran them outside the IDE. I have read a lot about creating .jar files. I wrote a simple and famous Hello World Class the just shows a JOption message pane that says Hello World. I use Eclipse with Windows 7. I exported the project in Eclipse to a JAR file. I go to the command line and do java -jar HelloWorld.jar and it runs my program just fine. This is not what I need to do. I want to be able to just double click on it and have it work. ON ANY COMPUTER I PUT IT ON. So I created a batch file that does the Command line stuff for me. I put the .jar file and my .bat file on a flash drive and put it on another computer (Windows 7 also with java 1.6) and I put the .jar file in the same directory my .bat file says it will be and the program DOES NOT RUN! WHY!!! Do I need to include another folder in the same directory as the .jar?? What do I need to do to make an executable thats portable??? And user friendly. People dont want to type CMD lines. Double Click and done. Thanks for the help!

[KevinWorkman]

Do you get any warning messages or anything? And can't your (non-linux) users just double click the jar to run it? Have you looked into webstart at all?

[Tolls]

Make an executable jar by sticking a proper Manifest file into the jar.
That way the user can double click the jar and it should run.

That should give you enough buzzwords to Google on.

[pbrockway2]

The story continues at .jar Help. Reply there, not here.

[Fubarable]

Locked as a duplicate thread.