How to run a Java App

Hi all you people,
Something bothers me, since I play around with Java, which is not very long. What is the best way to run a program? Java is platform independent. That means, different platforms - differnet ways to start a program. On Windows you usually have a little Icon, the same under Linux KDE etc. Doubleclick and away you go. But what I always read in most of the Java tutorials is "Start Command, go to directory, type 'java myclass'". There must be a better way to do this?
I am a VB programmer and if I compare the deployment tools in VB with my tools in Visual Age for Java 2.0 I must say, VB is way ahead in this area. I always say, things must be easy to use. For me that's the reason why e.g Linux isn't on most of the desktops. It is just too complicated to install. Is this the same with Java? Or is there a better way than 'java myclass' from the command line?
Sorry the post became a bit long. And sorry if this is a dumb question. I am new to Java.
Cheers
Peter

For Windows, a shortcut works. Create a shortcut that has a Target line "c:\windows\javaw.exe xxxx", and it starts a Swing app - without a DOS window appearing. The shortcut is just like any that's on the desktop.
Bat files work as expected. When you get a little more experience look into "executable Jars" - they can be set up to start an app by clicking on them. You can also exec a non-java program from java, you can...
Well, you get the idea.
hth - Chuck

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import java.util.Properties;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
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private String iArgs[];
public static void main(String args[])
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private void main()
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try
properties.load(new FileInputStream("RunProg.properties"));
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System.setProperties(properties);
int i = 0;
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rp.iProg = st.nextToken();
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th.start();
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catch(CloneNotSupportedException e)
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p[0] = String[].class;
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private int maxPosition;
private String str;
private String delimiters;
private boolean retTokens;
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* characters in the <code>delim</code> argument are the delimiters
* for separating tokens.
* <p>
* If the <code>returnTokens</code> flag is <code>true</code>, then
* the delimiter characters are also returned as tokens. Each
* delimiter is returned as a string of length one. If the flag is
* <code>false</code>, the delimiter characters are skipped and only
* serve as separators between tokens.
* @param str a string to be parsed.
* @param delim the delimiters.
* @param returnTokens flag indicating whether to return the delimiters
* as tokens.
public StringTokenizer(String str, String delim, boolean returnTokens)
currentPosition = 0;
this.str = str;
maxPosition = str.length();
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retTokens = returnTokens;
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* for separating tokens. Delimiter characters themselves will not
* be treated as tokens.
* @param str a string to be parsed.
* @param delim the delimiters.
public StringTokenizer(String str, String delim)
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s = s.substring(1);
if(s.charAt(s.length() - 1) == '"')
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I've used the Sun J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.2 with MIDP2.0 and CLDC1.1 .
The apps works fine in the emulator. The problem starts when I want to run it in the phone. The phone I've tried is an LG u8120. LG apparently does not want to make life easy for its customers, so there is no support for transfering Java apps in the vendor-supplied software. I suppose that's because they want you to only download stuff from their site. However, after surfing around on some discussion forums for a while I found a program called G-thing which can be used to upload Java apps to LG-phones via USB.
Any help is very appreciated!
Thanks,
Sarah

Thanks,
I have tried this and ruled out some of the possible causes.
When I added some more exception handling, I could see that a "java.lang.IllegalArguenException" is thrown.
When I ran the AudioDemo package that came with WTK2.2 I noticed that the examples that uses WAV-files do not work while the rest works fine.
My new theory is now that the u8120 does not support the WAV-format, so I will try with an mp3 instead and see what happens.
Anyone who knows if LG-phones support WAV-format?
/Sarah

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