Classpath with network drive to run Java program

Question

I have a bunch of jars in a shared (Windows) network drive. I would like to refer those jars using java -classpath /network/drive/path/* myClass. I will be running this command from an applescript so I have tried something like below-

 do shell script "java -classpath smb://user:pass@server/shared/jars/* myClass"

but it doesn't seem to work, is there a way to do it rather than having a whole bunch of jar files in the local machine or inside the Application package?

The above works on a Windows batch script like

java -classpath S:\shared\jars\* myClass

Answer 1

Your Windows example is not really a fair comparison, as there you have clearly mapped a drive letter to the network path which you then use with your Java command. The equivalent on Mac OS is to mount a network volume, which you can do through Finder -> Go -> Connect to server, or via AppleScript using the mount volume command. Either way, if you mount smb://user:pass@server/shared you can then access its contents under the path /Volumes/shared:

do shell script "java -classpath /Volumes/shared/jars/\\* myClass"