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Name        : jakarta-commons-launcher     Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 0.9                               Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 3jpp_1fc                      Build Date: Tue Jan 25 18:24:59 2005
Install date: (not installed)               Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com
Group       : Development/Libraries/Java    Source RPM: (none)
Size        : 45427                            License: Apache Software License
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL         : http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/launcher/
Summary     : The Launcher Component is designed to be a cross platform Java application launcher.
Description :
Commons-launcher eliminates the need for a batch or shell script to launch a Java class. Some situations where elimination of a batch or shell script may be desirable are:

* You want to avoid having to determining where certain application paths are e.g. your application's home directory, etc. Determining this dynamically in a Windows batch scripts is very tricky on some versions of Windows or when softlinks are used on Unix platforms.
* You want to avoid having to handle native file and path separators or native path quoting issues.
* You need to enforce certain system properties e.g. java.endorsed.dirs when running with JDK 1.4.
* You want to allow users to pass in custom JVM arguments or system properties without having to parse and reorder arguments in your script. This can be tricky and/or messy in batch and shell scripts.
* You want to bootstrap system properties from a configuration file instead hard-coding them in your batch and shell scripts.
* You want to provide localized error messages which is very tricky to do in batch and shell scripts.