For reasons best known to myself I wanted to start a Java application in OS X. Now this Java application (the rather good JDarkRoom) comes as a Jar which works fine, just double click and it starts. But of course, this is where it gets a bit more complex. I want to start it in Quicksilver, the excellent launchbar for OS X, but quicksilver won’t see my Jar file. Now I’m sure I could do a workaround:

java -jar /Applications/JDarkRoom.jar Saved it, ran sudo chmod +x in terminal on the file I’d just saved and then put that file somewhere quicksilver can see it. Now I can just invoke the script and it’s all happy. Or something like that.

p.s. this is what happens now that I work on a Mac again and don’t have my handy copy of Tomboy available to be my personal wiki for remembering this kind of thing.