\" Man page documenting the java-wrappers \" \" Copyright 2008 by Vincent Fourmond \" \" This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify \" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by \" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or \" (at your option) any later version. \" This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, \" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of \" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the \" GNU General Public License for more details. \" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License \" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software \" Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA .TH JAVA-WRAPPERS 7 "2010-05-04" "Version 0.1.16" "Java wrappers" .SH NAME .B java-wrappers \- capacities shared by java wrapper scripts .SH DESCRIPTION Most Java programs are not run directly, but through small shell scripts that take care of various things, such as finding a suitable Java environment and looking for libraries. To ease the task of the maintainers, they rely on a library providing runtime detection, library detection and other features. This manual page describes the common features of all those scripts, and to which point you can configure them. This is mainly done via environment variables. .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES .B java-wrappers understands some environment variables: .TP .B JAVA_CMD The .I java command that will be run. If this variable is set, it disables all lookup for a java runtime. .TP .B JAVA_BINDIR Specifies a directory that will be looked for a .I java or a .I jdb executable (depending on the setting of .IR JAVA_DEBUGGER ). It has precedence over .I JAVA_HOME but not over .IR JAVA_CMD . .TP .B JAVA_HOME A path to a Java runtime. If this variable is set, all lookup for a Java runtime is disabled, except that if no .I java executable is found in the path, the command .I java is used. .TP .B JAVA_FLAVOR A probably more easy-to-use version of the .I JAVA_HOME variable: instead of specifying the full path of the Java runtime, you name it. List of available flavors can be found in the file .IR /usr/lib/java-wrappers/jvm-list.sh . See examples below. .TP .B JAVA_DEBUGGER If this is set, the wrapper will try to pick up a Java debugger rather than a Java interpreter. This will fail if the .I jbd of the runtime found is a stub. .TP .B JAVA_CLASSPATH Additional classpath, will have priority over the one found by the wrapper. .TP .B JAVA_ARGS Additional arguments to the .I java command. They will come before all other arguments. .TP .B FORCE_CLASSPATH If this variable is set, it will be .B the only classpath\fR. You'd better know what you are doing. .TP .B DEBUG_WRAPPER This is probably the most important variable; if it set, the wrapper will print out useful information as it goes by its business, such as which runtime it did find, and which command is run eventually. .TP .B JAVA_JARPATH The path where the wrappers will go looking for .I jar archives. If not set, the wrapper will look into the default directory, .IR /usr/share/java . .B Warning : the wrapper will not look anywhere else than in .IR JAVA_JARPATH . Setting it incorrectly will most probably result in early crashes. .SH EXAMPLES The examples all rely on .BR rasterizer (1), from the package .B libbatik-java\fR, but they really apply to all scripts that use java-wrappers. Print out debugging information: .I DEBUG_WRAPPER=1 rasterizer Limit rasterizer's memory to 80 MB: .I JAVA_ARGS=-Xmx80m rasterizer Force rasterizer to run with .BR kaffe (1): .I JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/kaffe rasterizer The same, but using .IR JAVA_BINDIR : .I JAVA_BINDIR=/usr/lib/kaffe/bin rasterizer Force rasterizer to run with .BR openjdk : .I JAVA_FLAVOR=openjdk rasterizer Debug rasterizer with Sun's debugger, while printing debugging information from the wrapper: .I DEBUG_WRAPPER=1 JAVA_CMD=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/jdb rasterizer .SH BUGS Care has been taken to make the wrappers bug-free. If that was not the case, please file a bug report against the .B java-wrappers package. If you wish to submit any problem with a Java executable relying on .BR java-wrappers , please also submit the output of the command run with .IR DEBUG_WRAPPER=1 . It will save one mail exchange and therefore potentially reduce the time it takes to fix the bug. .SH DEVELOPERS There is currently no documentation about writing a wrapper script save the comments in .IR /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh . If you have to write one, we suggest you base yourself upon, for instance, the .I rasterizer wrapper script, or any other one (just pick up any direct reverse dependency of .B java-wrappers and look for scripts). .SH SEE ALSO .BR java (1), .BR jdb (1) .I /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh .SH AUTHOR .B java-wrappers and its documentation were written by Vincent Fourmond