Back in the day it used to be a bit more difficult than it is now to dynamically generate your java application classpath – you’d have to write a script to loop over all the jar files in a directory, appending them to your classpath variable – like this.
Since Java 6 though, its been a lot easier – you can use wildcards to specify all jars in a directory. See the “Understanding class path wildcards” in the Java SE 6 documentation.
Now its as simple as:
java -cp /my/lib/dir/* MyClass
Simple! As it should be!
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