More Windows XP classpath BS

I've been trying to install a Java X10 home automation program called Alice (http://jhome.sourceforge.net) on XP- I wanna squirt water into a birdbath for 10-15 seconds several times a day, and the commercial programs only have 1 minute granularity (so does Alice, but source code is available).
Alice runs with "java -jar alice.jar" (I'm a little puzzled by that, since it's a GUI program that you'd expect to start with "javaw alice.jar"). It makes use of the Java Comm API, but no amount of classpath fiddling (including explicitly naming "C:\WINDOZE\j2re1.4.0\lib\comm.jar") seemed to let Alice find javax/comm/SerialPortEventListener, which is in comm.jar.
For what it's worth, I solved this particular problem by unzipping alice.jar and comm.jar with WinZip, then zipping it all together into a new alice.jar (using the original manifest.inf). "java -jar alice.jar" now runs Alice under XP.
Poor Maligned Bovines Dept., Your Honor:
The "Bull" in BS refers to one Obadiah Bull, an 18th Irish lawyer that practiced in London, who was so well know for his, well... BS... that for decades later the whole Irish contingent of the English Parliament was known as "the Irish Bulls," in his honor.

Try putting the comm.jar in j2re1.4.0\lib\ext\
Also check that you don't have more than one java run time install on your system and if you do have more than one make sure the one you are running has comm.jar installed in the correct location

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