patalwell/blackJack

BlackJack Simulator

Synopsis: This application allows the user to run a BlackJack simulator.

Deploying The Application as a Jar in Unix/Linux based systems:

1. Download the provided zip file and unzip it's contents
2. Create a parent directory called Development/ in your home directory and add a subdirectory called blackJack mkdir ~/Development mkdir ~/Development/blackJack
3. Navigate to your new project directory cd ~/Development/blackJack
4. Copy the src directory for the Java source code from your Downloads directory into the blackJack directory e.g. cp -R ~/Downloads/src ~/Development/blackJack
5. Create a build directory to house our binaries mkdir build
6. Prior to compiling our classes let's add our com.palwell.games.utils package to our class path. Type CLASSPATH=.:~/Development/blackJack/src/ in the console and then export CLASSPATH. Running echo $CLASSPATH should reveal the class path we just configured.
7. Compile our utility classes and place the class files in our build directory by running javac -d build/ src/com/palwell/games/util/*.java
8. Compile our driver and place the class files in our build directory by running javac -d build/ src/com/palwell/games/*.java
9. Create a distribution directory for the java archive (JAR) file we are about to make mkdir dist.
10. Navigate to our build directory cd build
11. Create a manifest file in our build directory so the compiler knows where our driver (main class) lives vi manifest.txt. Add the following entry Main-Class: com.palwell.games.BlackJack. Be sure to hit return after the line as the java CLI tools will expect a carriage or newline character at the end of the line.
12. Now that we have a manifest file we can run jar -cfmv ~/Development/blackJack/dist/blackJack.jar manifest.txt com/palwell/games/ to create an executable jar.
13. You should now be able to run the application by submitting the following command java -jar ~/Development/blackJack/dist/blackJack.jar.