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Loading java code at runtime

I got a little project where I have to compute a list. The computation depends on serveal factors.
The point is that these factors change from time to time and the user should be allowed to change this by it's self.
Up to now, the factors are hard-coded and no changes can be done without recompiling the code.
At the moment the code looks like this:
if (someStatement.equals("someString")) {
computedList.remove("something");
}
My idea is to make an editable and human readable textfile, configfile, etc. which is loaded at runtime/ at startup? This file should hold the java code from above.
Any ideas how to do that? Please note: The targeted PCs do not have the JDK installed, only an JRE.

An effective way of going about this is using a static initializer. Static Block in Java A good and concise explanation can be found under this link.

One option here that would allow this would be to use User Input Dialogs from the swing API - then you could store the users answer's in variables and export them to a text file/config file, or just use them right in the program without saving them. You would just have the input dialogs pop up at the very beginning of the program before anything else happens, and then the program would run based off those responses.

You could use Javascript for the configuration file language, instead of java. Java 7 SE and later includes a javascript interpreter that you can call from Java. it's not difficult to use, and you can inject java objects into the javascript environment.
Basically, you'd create a Javascript environment, insert the java objects into it which the config file is expected to configure, and then run the config file as javascript.

Okay, here we go... I found an quite simple solution for my problem.
I am using Janino by Codehaus (Link). This library has an integrated Java compiler and seems to work like the JavaCompiler class in Java 7.
BUT without having the JDK to be installed.
Through Janino you can load and compile *.java files(which are human readable) at runtime, which was exactly what I needed.
I think the examples and code-snippets on their homepage are just painful, so here's my own implementation:
Step one is to implement an interface with the same methods your Java file has which is loaded at runtime:
public interface ZuordnungInterface {
public ArrayList<String> Zuordnung(ArrayList<String> rawList);}
Then you call the Janino classloader when you need the class:
File janinoSourceDir = new File(PATH_TO_JAVAFILE);
File[] srcDir = new File[] { janinoSourceDir };
String encoding = null;
ClassLoader parentClassLoader = this.getClass().getClassLoader();
ClassLoader cl = new JavaSourceClassLoader(parentClassLoader, srcDir,
encoding);
And create an new instance
ZuordnungsInterface myZuordnung = (ZuordnungInterface) cl.loadClass("zuordnung")
.newInstance();
Note: The class which is loaded is named zuordnung.java, so there is no extension needed in the call cl.loadClass("zuordnung").
And finaly the class I want to load and compile at runtime of my program, which can be located wherever you want it to be (PATH_TO_JAVAFILE):
public class zuordnung implements ZuordnungInterface {
public ArrayList<String> Zuordnung(ArrayList<String> rawList){
ArrayList<String> computedList = (ArrayList<String>) rawList.clone();
if (Model.getSomeString().equals("Some other string")) {
computedList.add("Yeah, I loaded an external Java class");
}
return computedList;
}}
That's it. Hope it helps others with similar problems!

Execute .jar file in Spoon (Pentaho Kettle)

I need to execute a java jar file from Spoon.
The program has only one class, and all I want is to run it with or without parameters.
The class is named "Limpieza", and is inside a package named:
com.overflow.csv.clean
I have deploy the jar to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Kettle\data-integration\lib
And from a Modified JavaScriptValue step, I am calling it this way:
var jar = com.everis.csv.clean.Limpieza;
This is not working at all, is there a way around to make it work?
Also would be nice to have a way to see the logs printed by the program when it runs.
I am not getting any error when I run the transformation.
Thanks.

Check the blog below:
https://anotherreeshu.wordpress.com/2015/02/07/using-external-jars-import-in-pentaho-data-integration/
Hope this might help :)

Spoon will load any jar files present in its
data-integration\lib
folder and its subfolders during startup, so if you want to access classes from a custom jar, you could place the jar here.
So you need to create a custom jar and place the jar in
data-integration\lib
location.
While calling a custom class in "Modified Java Script Value" or in "User Defined Java Class step" you should call with fully qualified name. For example var jar = com.everis.csv.clean.Limpieza.getInstance().getMyString();
Note: After placing the jar, make sure you restart the Spoon.
If still does not work please attach the Pentaho.log (data-integration-server/logs/Pentaho.log) and catalina.out(data-integration-server/tomcat/logs) logs

The answer was to create a User Defined Java Class (follow the guide Rishu pointed), and here is my working code:
import java.util.*;
import com.everis.csv.Cleaner;
public boolean processRow(StepMetaInterface smi, StepDataInterface sdi) throws KettleException
{
Cleaner c = new Cleaner();
c.clean();
// The rest of it is for making it work
// You will also need to make a Generate Rows step that inputs a row to this step.
Object[] r = getRow();
if (r == null) {
setOutputDone();
return false;
}
r = createOutputRow(r, data.outputRowMeta.size());
putRow(data.outputRowMeta, r);
return true;
}

Can i rename package paths of an existing jar packages?

i have a ready to use .jar file and want to know if its possible to extract and rename the packages?
so when usually i start the .jar file with:
java -cp myFile.jar com.codehelper.demo.Main
i want to rename the "codehelper" in it to something different that i can run it by
java -cp myFile.jar com.NEW_NAME.demo.Main
i tried to decompile all files, add it to the folderstructure with renamed "codehelper" path and compile it again but it didnt work. i also renamed all the package includes in each file like
import com.codehelper...
so is my goal unreachable or can i do this? and if someone can explain me how to do, it will be very nice.
thank you and sory for my poor english
edit: it seems the only file i cant compile is a file containing this switch case.
private int priotiryLevel(DiscoveryInfoBehave info)
{
int ret = 0;
switch (1.$SwitchMap$com$peerialism$natcracker$common$GatewayDevice$GatewayType[info.getNatDevice().getGatewayType().ordinal()])
{
case 1:
ret = 0;
break;
case 2:
ret = 4;
break;
case 3:
ret = 5;
break;
}
return ret;
}
i tried also to rename the specific word inside this switch case but no effort.

Write a new wrapper class:
package com.NEW_NAME.demo;
public class Main
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
com.codehelper.demo.Main.main(args);
}
}
compile it and add it to the jar. You can now invoke it as:
java -cp myFile.jar com.NEW_NAME.demo.Main
and it will silently dispatch to the real implementation.

This is not possible generally. If you rename some files, Java wont be able to find them (public class name must be same as file name). You can rename file with main class and call it as #Joe suggested in his answer. But if you rename somthing else, it will stop working. There could be cals to those classes in code. Same goes for the "codehelper" name. You can not remove it from code. Even if you remove it from one file, anyone will still be able to see this somewhere else in the code.
Rename directory is the same as rename file. You destroy namespace (package) and code will no longer work, because inside classes, this package is used. Plus there is no need to have import in the code, since you can call directly com.package-name.class from the executive code. By renaming package, you will destroy this and program will crash. It may run for a while, but once the program reach to this call, it will crash.
So this
import com.codehelper...
is not mandatory in the code, even if the code is using the package. You can write directly
com.codehelper.*** xy = new com.codehelper.***();
Even if you rename everything in the code, you still dont have guaranted functionality. Code may be using reflection and create class instances from sting code. For example see this:
Java how to instantiate a class from string
Under the line comment:
Doing some decompile -> compile work, is seems like code stealing, if you are not willing to pay licence and you want to hide it.
Plus doing something like this, it is ALWAYS a bad practice. I dont see any real use for this.

JAVA download command in matlab code [duplicate]

I want Matlab program to call a java file, preferably with an example.

There are three cases to consider.
Java built-in libraries.
That is, anything described here. These items can simply be called directly. For example:
map = java.util.HashMap;
map.put(1,10);
map.put(2,30);
map.get(1) %returns 10
The only complication is the mapping Matlab performs between Matlab data types and Java data types. These mappings are described here (Matlab to Java) and here (Java to Matlab). (tl; dr: usually the mappings are as you would expect)
Precompiled *.jar files
You first need to add these to Matlab's java class path. You can do this dynamically (that is, per-Matlab session, with no required Matlab state), as follows:
javaaddpath('c:\full\path\to\compiledjarfile.jar')
You can also add these statically by editing the classpath.txt file. For more information use docsearch java class path.
Precompiled *.class files.
These are similar to *.jar file, except you need to add the directory containing the class file, rather than the class files themselves. For example:
javaaddpath('c:\full\path\to\directory\containing\class\files\')
%NOT THIS: javaaddpath('c:\full\path\to\directory\containing\class\files\classname.class')

Ok, I'll try to give a mini-example here. Either use the java functions right from the Matlab window as zellus suggests, or, if need permits, create your own java class. Here's an example:
package testMatlabInterface;
public class TestFunction
{
private double value;
public TestFunction()
{
value = 0;
}
public double Add(double v)
{
value += v;
return value;
}
}
Then turn it into a jar file. Assuming you put the file in a folder called testMatlabInterface, run this command at the command line:
jar cvf testMatlab.jar testMatlabInterface
Then, in Matlab, navigate to the directory where your testMatlab.jar file is located and run the command, import testMatlabInterface.* to import all the classes in the testMatlabInterface package. Then you may use the class like so:
>> methodsview testMatlabInterface.TestFunction
>> me = testMatlabInterface.TestFunction()
me =
testMatlabInterface.TestFunction#7e413c
>> me.Add(10)
ans =
10
>> me.Add(10)
ans =
20
>> me.Add(10)
ans =
30
Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

Make JAR as a standalone executable

Is there a way to convert JAR lib into JAR standalone?
I need to find a standalone java executable that convert PDF into TIFF and I've found these JARs: http://www.icefaces.org/JForum/posts/list/17504.page
Any ideas?

Easiest might be to create another Jar with a Main() entry point, and then just use the java.exe executable to run it:
e.g.
> java.exe -cp MyJarMain.jar;MyPDFJar.jar com.mydomain.MyMain myPDF.pdf
Where MyMain is a class with a Main static method.
You'll need something with a main entry point to pass in and interpret some command line arguments (myPDF.pdf in my made-up example)

You could do an assembly (are you using maven?) and make sure the Main-Class entry in the manifest.mf points to the main class.

Since there is no main-Method, you have to write one, or write a whole new class to call the class/method TiffConver.convertPDF .
The question is, how you're going to use it. From the command line, you need no executable jar. From the Gui, maybe you want to pass a file to be converted by drag and drop? Then you should take the parameter(s) passed to main as Input-PDF-Names (if they end in .pdf) and pass the names iteratively to TiffConverter, for "a.pdf b.pdf" =>
TiffConver.convertPDF ("a.pdf", "a.tiff");
TiffConver.convertPDF ("b.pdf", "b.tiff");
TiffCoverter will silently overwrite existing tiffs, so check that before or change the code there - this is clearly bad habit, and look out for more such things - I didn't.
/*
* Remove target file if exists
*/
File f = new File(tif);
if (f.exists()) {
f.delete();
}
Maybe you wan't to write a swing-wrapper, which let's you choose Files interactively to be converted. This would be a nice idee, if no filename is given.
If the user passes "a.pdf xy.tiff" you could rename the converted file to xy, as additional feature.
Without a main-class, however, a standalone jar would be magic.
However, building a native executale is almost always a bad idea. You loose portability, you don't profit from security- and performance improvements to the JVM or fixed bugs. For multiple programs you need always an independend bugfix, which you might have to manage yourself, if you don't have a package-management as most linux distros have.
after clearing some questions:
public static void main (String [] args) {
if (args.length == 1 && args[0].endsWith (".pdf")) {
String target = args[0].replaceAll (".pdf$", ".tif");
convertPDF (args[0], target);
}
}
This method you put into TiffConvert. It will allow you to convert a simple pdf-File, and generate a tif-File with the same basename but ending in .tif, silently overwriting an existing one of the same name.
I guess you now need to know how to start it?