Hello I'm trying to run a java application from command line: java -classpath "G:\Viqee\classes;G:\Viqee\jar" "com.nextnine.common.Application" The problem is that the java compiler recognise only a part of the classpath, i.e. only the classes from G:\Viqee\classes are recognized by java and all the jars from G:\Viqee\jar are ignored. I can tell that from two reasons: 1.) the exceptions that I get from java indicates that the jars are missing. 2.) when I add the jars one by one to the classpath it's working. if anyone have any idea please replay to me. thanks

I do not actually see a JAR file name in that classpath, it looks like a directory name. JARs are specified by using the full file name, like: -classpath G:\x\classes;G:\x\jars\someapplication.jar

Thanks for responding. The point is that the directory G:\Viqee\jar contains multiple jars and I would like to include all the jars in my classpaht and by specifying a full file name for each jar I get a very long command which the console can't handle. so I would like to create a shorter command which will include all the jars by specifying only the directory name. can it be done?

Google tells me that cmd.exe handles a max line length of 8192. There must be a lot of JARs in that directory. If your console cannot handle the length, perhaps you are using the wrong OS. :-) I don't have a Windows box here, but someone will correct me if I get this .BAT stuff wrong. FWIW, here is an idea which we use at work to make building a list of JARs easier: set CLASSPATH= for %%i in ("C:\jars\*.jar") do call :addjar %%i goto :eof :addjar set CLASSPATH=%1;%CLASSPATH% goto :eof

Thanks man it's really working. :-) about the OS, I'm really don't have a lot of space for maneuvering here, IMO this is a basic requirement which every OS /jdk /jre should be able to handle. my directory contains a large number of jars (about 60) and I only expected java to allow me include the entire directory in the classpath without specifying each one of them. anyway thanks again Asaf