Running a jar file on double clicking a folder in Windows XP

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Hello Friends.....
I have created a GRAPHICAL PASSWORD BASED AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM as part of my final year B.E project. This system uses images as a password to authenticate the user. Now i want to attach the jar file of my project to a folder in Windows XP. Suppose i have a folder named 'ABC'...So double clicking on 'ABC' should open my project....and if the user logins successfully, the contents of the folder should be shown. Can please anyone help me with this matter?
Any other suggestion will also be welcomed...

Posted 9-Apr-12 4:23am

ChiragL

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TorstenH. · Answer 1 · 2012-04-09T19:14:00

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The Java Runtime (JRE) must be in your PATH variable (Environment variables) of machine: How to do that on any machine[^]

Then you can double click a JAR and - if it is a runnable JAR - the machine should open it.

The rest is simple: After your login procedure let your application run the native windows "explorer.exe" with the path to the folder 'ABC' as an argument.

Posted 9-Apr-12 19:14pm

TorstenH.

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ChiragL 10-Apr-12 11:29am

Thank you TorstenH.....
But I have already done this and this is not what i want....I want that my JAR file should run after double clicking 'ABC' folder...and if login procedure is successfull...the contents of the 'ABC' should be shown...
Its like a protected WORD document....the document opens...asks for password and then contents are shown......

TorstenH. 10-Apr-12 11:47am

That is OS functionality. You can't get in between that. There might be a possibility within C programming, I'm not firm with that. But that would be C programming anyway.

What you can do is to create your own file browser and to hide the files in some kind of Directory Service.

ChiragL 10-Apr-12 13:22pm

Ok....thank you once again for helping...