Help -setting long classpath in windows 2003

Question

i have around 50 jars .
i have to set classpath for all these jars.
when i try to set environmentvariables\classpath
its not taking the classpath completly.
and errors are thrown when program is compiled ..
pls help
arvin

Answer 1

If you're using Java 6 a new classpath feature may help:
"As a special convenience, a class path element containing a basename of * is considered equivalent to specifying a list of all the files in the directory with the extension .jar or .JAR (a java program cannot tell the difference between the two invocations).
For example, if directory foo contains a.jar and b.JAR, then the class path element foo/* is expanded to a A.jar:b.JAR, except that the order of jar files is unspecified. All jar files in the specified directory, even hidden ones, are included in the list. A classpath entry consisting simply of * expands to a list of all the jar files in the current directory. The CLASSPATH environment variable, where defined, will be similarly expanded. Any classpath wildcard expansion occurs before the Java virtual machine is started -- no Java program will ever see unexpanded wildcards except by querying the environment. For example; by invoking System.getenv("CLASSPATH"). "