Re: How to make java client app to download jar package from server autoly?

From:

"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

1 Jan 2007 09:54:49 -0800

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Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:

Andrew Thompson writes:

> sealo wrote:
> ....

I want to write a command line java client program.

Why? Or rather, why would you want to use Java to program a tool
intended to be run from within the command line, as opposed to a
program with a GUI?

Why not?

<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1167571456.413876.322520@48g2000cwx.googlegroups.com>

Java is by no way a language to develop only GUI applications. In fact
the javax.swing.*

Swing? Note that you are the first to mention Swing,
specifically (to my recollection). This could be done
using Swing, the AWT, ..or SWT.

...classes are only a small part from the whole Java
API (and the rest of the API is not there to serve GUI applications
*only*).

There are a lot of comments I could make at
this point, but I feel the most appropriate is
"Well ..DuHH!"

At last count, 19/20 jobs were servlet/JSP based,
with strong implicaiton of a HTML based thin client,
as opposed to any sort of 'rich client GUI'.

(And that is not even considering the Java
applications that run in headless environments/
entirely from the command line..)

Andrew T.