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:
.jar
) files.
JBuilder includes the following command-line tools:
And, in JBuilder Professional and Enterprise:
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.