Main class file not indicated in "Java tool" download.

Question

While trying yEd, I opted for the "Java" version, as I already have a java installed.

Sure enough, it contains a .jar file with (presumably) all required files, but there is no indication (at least I couldn't find it) as to how to start the jar.

"java -jar yed.jar" is guessable, but that does not run, as it needs a main class as well to start, which is not mentioned anywhere.

Answer 1

The command java -jar yed.jar is exactly how you run the "Java" version yEd. You do not need to specify a main class for this command because the -jar option tells Java to extract the main class from the Java archive meta-data in the yed.jar file.

Comments

Thanks!

Indeed this works, I got confused by the other ways that you can run a java program.