#6 Need Help Unjar

[Ken Wong]

Hello Everyone,

I'm a novice to this and also new to installing
mm.MySQL driver to communicate to MySQL DB. When I
downloaded the latest version of mm.MySQL driver
(2.08) from this site and try to unjar it as the
following command:
jar xv jar_filename.jar

Nothing happened. I waited for hours and no files
unjar. What could be the problem? Am I missing any
additional parameters?

Also, can someone point me the right direction where
I can find documentation on how to install the driver
so I could write a JavaBean with DB connection code
using mm.mysql driver to MySQL DB?

I installed JDK v1.3.1 and running MySQL DB on
Windows 2000 machine.

Thanks in advance.

Ken

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2.08 can be decompressed using WinZip... just open it in
WinZip. Then you are at the sam point i am... ;-) i was
looking for some installation guide or something. good luck!

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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hi Ken,

I'm also a novice to this, but reading the manpage for jar
I found out that when using the 'x' parameter jar extracts
from standard input! So to extract all files from
jar_filename.jar you could type:

jar xv < jar_filename.jar

Unfortunately I can't help with your other question. :-)

Greets,

Frank.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I'm having the same problem, if you got it to work, can you
point me in the write direction?

[Bill Shiley]

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Ken,

I don't know if you got an answer yet about the jar
command. If you want to have jar read its input from a
file, you need to use the f switch. The following command
should work:

jar xvf jar_filename.jar

This should extract everything from the specified jar file.

Hope this helps,

Bill

[joey beltran]

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Hi Ken,

Try this site -- http://www.thenetsquad.com/
techresources/index.html.

I am also stuck.

Joey24

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Open the .jar with winzip and extract everything to your
prefered path/folder. In windows Add the path to the java
executable in your path statement + c:> set
classpath=.;_path_to_the_EXTRACTED_.jar_file_
Doner!! That's the install. I used the DBVisualizer to make
use of the JDBC driver and connect to my MYSQL server. 5
seconds work! And looks great.

Ave, JHS

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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You need to do 'jar xvf filename.jar'

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Try jar -xvf <filename>
- x: extract
- v: verbose
- f: filename

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Hi,

I had the same problem. The following command will work :)

jar xvf mm.mysql-2.0.11-you-must-unjar-me.jar

Cheers!

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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i used winzip to extract only mm.mysql-2.xx.jar from the
mm.mysql-2.xx-you-must-unjar-me.jar file and dropped it
directly into my jdk1.3xx\jre\lib\ext directory. that seemed to
work rather than messing with CLASSPATH

[Ariel Goyeneche]

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To create a JAR file
jar cf jar-file input-file(s)

To view the contents of a JAR file
jar tf jar-file

To extract the contents of a JAR file
jar xf jar-file

To extract specific files from a JAR file
jar xf jar-file archived-file(s)

To run an application packaged as a JAR file
(version 1.1)
jre -cp app.jar MainClass

To run an application packaged as a JAR file
(version 1.2 -- requires Main-Class manifest header)
java -jar app.jar

source :
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jar/basics/index.html

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I've just found at the in order to unjar your mm.mysql-you-
must-unjar-me.jar file... you need to specify the full path to
the location of your "jar" file when you issue the "jar xvf"
command:
For example if your mm.mysql-you-must-unjar-me.jar is
in "e:\tmp" you should be issuing the following command:
>jar xvf e:\tmp\mm.mysql-you-must-unjar-me.jar

I hope this helps...

Abdel.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I know this is old, but for the record, I discovered that
WinZip 7.0 will unjar the file nicely :)