How to use a .jar?

[cdietschrun]

I have Windows Vista 64 am trying to run MARS ( a MIPS Assembler Simulator ) and it comes in a .jar. When I click to open it, WinRAR opens and I don't have anything useful that I can use to run this program.

Can anyone help me out?

 

[Guest]

It's a Java ARchive. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jar/jar.html

Grumpy

 

[br3nd064]

You have to open it using Java SE: http://java.sun.com/javase/

 

[cadeted]

easiest way is to run this command:

java -jar jar-file

either run it from the command prompt in the directory where the jar file is

OR

use windows run command and put the full path in for the jar-file