<DIV>I'm not sure about jikes (I understand it is good, but I've never used it) but if you download (any of) the sun jdks one part of this will produce a jar from the class files.</DIV>
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<DIV>As an aside if you are a MS user too (heaven forbid of course!) you can use winzip to package up a series of java classes into a zip file and then rename it *.jar . Ensure you include the manifest in the pre compressed directory structure and you will have a bonafide jar file. (I wouldn't be surprised if the same went for the tar utility too but I've never tried :) )</DIV>See you all tonight...
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<DIV>Cheers,</DIV>
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<DIV>Dominic<BR><BR><B><I>Steve Dobson <steve@dobson.org></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Mark<BR><BR>On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 04:54:24PM +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:<BR>> OK people...<BR>> <BR>> ... quick question, what's the best way to get started with Java<BR>> development under Linux?<BR>> <BR>> I have a working JVM... but what I need is a compiler to get from<BR>> source code to a .jar file.<BR>> <BR>> Can some one point me at a good URL for this? (or is there likely<BR>> to be one already on my Debian PC without me knowing?)<BR><BR>Jikes is the standard Java compiler for Debian. But I normally <BR>download the JDK from sun and use that.<BR><BR>Steve<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Sussex mailing list<BR>Sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk<BR>http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sussex</BLOCKQUOTE>