Tools/External Tools Problem

Question

I created an external tool entry TEST which does nothing but the following:
java -cp "xxx.jar" test
If I run this inside for JDeveloper 9.0.3.1 I get an error "Unrecognized option: -cp xxx.jar" while if I copy this same command line to a (in this case) DOS session, it at least recognizes that the names are dummies and says it cannot find test as one would expect. What I am actually trying is to run the Apache Axis utilities but kept simplifying the problem further and further until I found that basically nothing worked when I used the -cp option.
Any suggestions or is this a bug?
Best,
Joe

Answer 1

Hi,
The best way of thinking of it is that it behaves like there are quotes round every distinct argument in the list, i.e. if you have three arguments like this:
-p
-p blah
blah blah ${somemacro} blah
These are passed in like this:
someprogram.exe "-p" "-p blah" "blah blah blah somemacroexpansion blah"
In your example, the error you got is the same as if you had run:
java "-cp somejar.jar"
Thanks,
Brian
JDev Team