insanely long classpath

I am trying to add the following classpath nicely to windows, but I don't know how. All this files are in the same folder, but it just doesn't work if I set my classpath variable to .;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib*.jar.

This one doesn't work either:

.;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\Bib2HTML.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\GnuGetOpt.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\开发者_如何学编程lib\activation.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\ant-contrib-1.0b2.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\ant-junit.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\ant-launcher.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\ant-nodeps.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\ant.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\bcmail-jdk15-1.45.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\bcprov-jdk15-1.45.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\commons-compress-1.0.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\commons-discovery-0.2.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\commons-fileupload-1.0.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\commons-io-1.4.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\commons-lang-2.4.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\commons-logging-1.1.1.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\concurrent.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\dom4j-1.6.1.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\fontbox-1.1.0.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\gate-asm.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\gate-compiler-jdt.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\gateHmm.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\geronimo-ws-metadata_2.0_spec-1.1.1.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\icu4j.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\jakarta-oro-2.0.5.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\javacc.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\jaxb-api-2.0.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\jaxen-1.1.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\jaxws-api-2.0.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\jdom.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\jempbox-1.1.0.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\junit.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\log4j-1.2.14.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\lubm.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\lucene-core-3.0.1.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\mail.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\nekohtml-1.9.14.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\ontotext.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\pdfbox-1.1.0.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\pg73jdbc3.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\poi-3.6.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\poi-ooxml-3.6.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\poi-ooxml-schemas-3.6.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\poi-scratchpad-3.6.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\spring-aop-2.0.8.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\spring-beans-2.0.8.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\spring-core-2.0.8.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\stax-api-1.0.1.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\tika-core-0.7.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\tika-parsers-0.7.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\wstx-lgpl-3.2.3.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\xercesImpl.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\xmlunit-1.2.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\xpp3-1.1.3.3_min.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\xstream-1.2.jar

How do I add all these jars to the classpath

Ted

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Make sure you use quotes when you have spaces in a file name for the command line, like

"C:/Program Files/..."

else C:/Program will be interpreted as a separate arguments from Files/...

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Can you try putting some other jar and using it in Java program from location where you are trying to run the app/program which will use all this libraries. I think this will digonose the problem that is this class path variable is used by jdk or not.

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I think you just need to say C:\Program Files (x86)\GATE-6.0\lib\* (appropriately quoted of course.)

Refer to "Setting the class path" for details. Specifically read the section entitled "Understanding class path wildcards".

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If your classpath is insanely long you might consider writing your own classloader to dynamically load jars or .class files. It's actually not that hard to do and could simplify things.