Thanks for the link. I just put a texts directory iin my srcdirectory. I'm totally unfamiliar with test-driven development, so I'll take a look. Any tutorials? I'm still working on localization. In fact, I have a stub of a class called LocaleHandler which has the methods setLocale, getLocale and localValue This class should be imported into everything else, so people get in the habit of calling localValue with a key innstead of just asigning a string. I think that localization would be a really good candidate for test-driven development. It has to be working from the beginning. John On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 01:32:36AM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote: > Good to hear that you've got it working. A quick search did reveal a > tutorial providing the information on how to get ant to make a jar file > run with the java -jar command, see > http://ant.apache.org/manual/tutorials.html and look at the hello world > tutorial. I gave the general tutorials link incase the others are useful. > > Now I know what you might think when I say this, but have yu got junit > tests working? I do feel junit tests are particularly useful and I would > agree with the idea of test driven development where you write the tests > first and then write the code which meets the criteria in the tests. > > Michael Whapples > On 05/12/10 07:11, John J. Boyer wrote: > >After looking fruitlessly in the ant manual I looked at ant's own > >build.xml. It turned out that I simply had to specify the class with the > >main method in an attribute tag under the manivest tag under the jar > >tag. Now the code runs and gives the runtime error I expect. I hope to > >have another draft on Monday. > > > >Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! > > > >John > > > -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities