Including all the jars in a directory within the Java classpath

Question

Is there a way to include all the jar files within a directory in the classpath?

I\'m trying java -classpath lib/*.jar:. my.package.Program and it is no

Answer 1

Please note that wildcard expansion is broken for Java 7 on Windows.

Check out this StackOverflow issue for more information.

The workaround is to put a semicolon right after the wildcard. java -cp "somewhere/*;"