Classpath setting "unable to access jarfile"

Question

Hi
when i run $java -jar batik-squiggle.jar the error message on screen is
"unable to acces jarfile batik-squiggle.jar" and the path of the jar file is edited with the $CLASSPATH variable in the ~/.bash_profile
if i execute $java -jar /usr/share/batik-1.7/batik-squiggle.jar there is not problem
if i execute $java -cp /usr/share/batik-1.7/batik-squiggle.jar -jar batik-1.7.jar the error message is the above one.
the java virtual machine is sun jdk6
the application file is
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 553671 2008-01-06 11:11 /usr/share/batik-1.7/batik-squiggle.jar
This is the content of batik-squiggle.jar file about Main-Class paremeter in the MANIFEST.MF file
root@izar:/usr/share/batik-1.7# jar xf batik-squiggle.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF && cat META-INF/MANIFEST.MF | grep Main-Class | awk '{ print $2}'
org.apache.batik.apps.svgbrowser.Main
root@izar:/usr/share/batik-1.7# jar tf batik-squiggle.jar | grep org/apache/batik/apps/svgbrowser/Main.class
org/apache/batik/apps/svgbrowser/Main.class
This is my .bash_profile file content
#Fichero de configuración que se ejecuta al:
# entrar en SESION y
# al ejecutar source ~/.bash_profile
#configuracion de imagemagick . /usr/bin ya esta en el path
export MAGICK_HOME="$HOME/imagemagick"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib"
#Configuración del PATH para:
#java,xmlmind editor
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:/usr/share/xxe-perso-4_5_0/bin
#instalacion de la maquina virtual java-6-sun
#configuración de JAVA_HOME
export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun"
export JAR_HOME="/usr/share/java"
#configuracion de la validacion de documentos xml con saxon
export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:$JAR_HOME/saxon.jar:$JAR_HOME/docbook-xsl-saxon.jar:$JAR_HOME/xercesImpl.jar
#configuracion para batik:
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/usr/share/batik-1.7/batik-squiggle.jar
#configuración para xalan
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JAR_HOME/xalan2.jar:$JAR_HOME/xml-apis.jar:$JAR_HOME/docbook-website-xalan2.jar
#configuración para fop
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JAR_HOME/fop.jar:$JAR_HOME/avalon-framework.jar:$JAR_HOME/batik.jar:$JAR_HOME/commons-io.jar:$JAR_HOME/commons-logging.jar:$JAR_HOME/jai_core.jar:$JAR_HOME/jai_codec.jar:$JAR_HOME/fop-hyph.jar:$JAR_HOME/serializer.jar:$JAR_HOME/xmlgraphics-commons.jar
#configuracion para los samples de xeres apache. Synaptic no instala xercesSamples.jar
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JAR_HOME/xerces.jar:/usr/share/xerces-1_4_4/xercesSamples.jar
so the $CLASSPATH is ok no?
Whats the configuration error?
THANKS IN ADVANCE

Answer 1

c_aramburu wrote:
Hi
when i run $java -jar batik-squiggle.jar the error message on screen is
"unable to acces jarfile batik-squiggle.jar" and the path of the jar file is edited with the $CLASSPATH variable in the ~/.bash_profileThe CLASSPATH doesn't locate .jar files. It locates +.class+ files, usually inside .jar files. java -jar needs the full path name of the .jar file.