Using command-line tools

Command-line tools allow you to execute global commands from your command-line window. Using standard command-line tools, you can compile and launch applications, manage your JAR files, view applets outside of a web browser, and extract comments embedded in the code. JBuilder provides additional command-line tools that provide extended or improved functionality.

The JDK includes the following command-line tools:

JBuilder includes the following command-line tools:

JBuilder's command-line interface includes such options as: To access the list of options available in your edition of JBuilder, open a command-line window, navigate to the JBuilder bin directory and type jbuilder -help.

JBuilder runs on its own launcher, which is a shell script, a batch file, or an executable, depending on the platform you run it on. Each of these launchers can pass arguments to JBuilder.

For more information on using command-line tools in JBuilder, see "Using the command-line tools" in Building Applications with JBuilder.

For more information on command-line arguments, see "JBuilder command-line arguments" in Building Applications with JBuilder.

For more general information on command-line tools, see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/tooldocs/tools.html#basic.