Create cross platform Java SWT Application

Solution 1:

I've just run into the same problem. I haven't tried it yet, but I plan to include versions of swt.jar for all platforms and load the correct one dynamically in the start of the main method.

UPDATE: It worked. build.xml includes all jars:

<zipfileset dir="/home/aromanov/workspace/foo/lib" includes="swt_linux_gtk_x86.jar"/>
<zipfileset dir="/home/aromanov/workspace/foo/lib" includes="swt_macosx_x86.jar"/>
<zipfileset dir="/home/aromanov/workspace/foo/lib" includes="swt_win32_x86.jar"/>
<zipfileset dir="/home/aromanov/workspace/foo/lib" includes="swt_linux_gtk_x64.jar"/>
<zipfileset dir="/home/aromanov/workspace/foo/lib" includes="swt_macosx_x64.jar"/>
<zipfileset dir="/home/aromanov/workspace/foo/lib" includes="swt_win32_x64.jar"/>

and my main method starts with calling this:

private void loadSwtJar() {
    String osName = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase();
    String osArch = System.getProperty("os.arch").toLowerCase();
    String swtFileNameOsPart = 
        osName.contains("win") ? "win32" :
        osName.contains("mac") ? "macosx" :
        osName.contains("linux") || osName.contains("nix") ? "linux_gtk" :
        ""; // throw new RuntimeException("Unknown OS name: "+osName)

    String swtFileNameArchPart = osArch.contains("64") ? "x64" : "x86";
    String swtFileName = "swt_"+swtFileNameOsPart+"_"+swtFileNameArchPart+".jar";

    try {
        URLClassLoader classLoader = (URLClassLoader) getClass().getClassLoader();
        Method addUrlMethod = URLClassLoader.class.getDeclaredMethod("addURL", URL.class);
        addUrlMethod.setAccessible(true);

        URL swtFileUrl = new URL("rsrc:"+swtFileName); // I am using Jar-in-Jar class loader which understands this URL; adjust accordingly if you don't
        addUrlMethod.invoke(classLoader, swtFileUrl);
    }
    catch(Exception e) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Unable to add the SWT jar to the class path: "+swtFileName, e);
    }
}

[EDIT] For those looking for the "jar-in-jar classloader": It's included in Eclipse's JDT (the Java IDE built on Eclipse). Open org.eclipse.jdt.ui_*version_number*.jar with an archiver and you will find a file jar-in-jar-loader.zip inside.

Solution 2:

I have a working implementation which is now referenced from the SWT FAQ.

This approach is now available to use as an ANT task: SWTJar

[EDIT] SWTJar has now been updated to use Alexey Romanov's solution as described above.

build.xml

First I build a jar containing all of my application classes.

<!-- UI (Stage 1) -->   
<jarjar jarfile="./build/tmp/intrace-ui-wrapper.jar">
  <fileset dir="./build/classes" includes="**/shared/*.class" />
  <fileset dir="./build/classes" includes="**/client/gui/**/*.class" />
  <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.MF" src="lib/miglayout-3.7.3.1-swt.jar"/>
</jarjar>

Next, I build a jar to contain all of the following:

JARs
- The jar which I just built
- All the SWT jars
Classes
- The "Jar-In-Jar" classloader classes
- A special loader class - see below

Here is the fragment from build.xml.

<!-- UI (Stage 2) -->
<jarjar jarfile="./build/jars/intrace-ui.jar">
  <manifest>
    <attribute name="Main-Class" value="org.intrace.client.loader.TraceClientLoader" />
    <attribute name="Class-Path" value="." />
  </manifest>
  <fileset dir="./build/classes" includes="**/client/loader/*.class" />
  <fileset dir="./build/tmp" includes="intrace-ui-wrapper.jar" />
  <fileset dir="./lib" includes="swt-*.jar" />
  <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.MF" src="lib/jar-in-jar-loader.jar"/>
</jarjar>

TraceClientLoader.java

This loader class uses the jar-in-jar-loader to create a ClassLoader which loads classes from two jars.

The correct SWT jar
The application wrapper jar

Once we have this classloader we can launch the actual application main method using reflection.

public class TraceClientLoader
{
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable
  {    
    ClassLoader cl = getSWTClassloader();
    Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(cl);    
    try
    {
      try
      {
        System.err.println("Launching InTrace UI ...");
        Class<?> c = Class.forName("org.intrace.client.gui.TraceClient", true, cl);
        Method main = c.getMethod("main", new Class[]{args.getClass()});
        main.invoke((Object)null, new Object[]{args});
      }
      catch (InvocationTargetException ex)
      {
        if (ex.getCause() instanceof UnsatisfiedLinkError)
        {
          System.err.println("Launch failed: (UnsatisfiedLinkError)");
          String arch = getArch();
          if ("32".equals(arch))
          {
            System.err.println("Try adding '-d64' to your command line arguments");
          }
          else if ("64".equals(arch))
          {
            System.err.println("Try adding '-d32' to your command line arguments");
          }
        }
        else
        {
          throw ex;
        }
      }
    }
    catch (ClassNotFoundException ex)
    {
      System.err.println("Launch failed: Failed to find main class - org.intrace.client.gui.TraceClient");
    }
    catch (NoSuchMethodException ex)
    {
      System.err.println("Launch failed: Failed to find main method");
    }
    catch (InvocationTargetException ex)
    {
      Throwable th = ex.getCause();
      if ((th.getMessage() != null) &&
          th.getMessage().toLowerCase().contains("invalid thread access"))
      {
        System.err.println("Launch failed: (SWTException: Invalid thread access)");
        System.err.println("Try adding '-XstartOnFirstThread' to your command line arguments");
      }
      else
      {
        throw th;
      }
    }
  }

  private static ClassLoader getSWTClassloader()
  {
    ClassLoader parent = TraceClientLoader.class.getClassLoader();    
    URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory(new RsrcURLStreamHandlerFactory(parent));
    String swtFileName = getSwtJarName();      
    try
    {
      URL intraceFileUrl = new URL("rsrc:intrace-ui-wrapper.jar");
      URL swtFileUrl = new URL("rsrc:" + swtFileName);
      System.err.println("Using SWT Jar: " + swtFileName);
      ClassLoader cl = new URLClassLoader(new URL[] {intraceFileUrl, swtFileUrl}, parent);

      try
      {
        // Check we can now load the SWT class
        Class.forName("org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Layout", true, cl);
      }
      catch (ClassNotFoundException exx)
      {
        System.err.println("Launch failed: Failed to load SWT class from jar: " + swtFileName);
        throw new RuntimeException(exx);
      }

      return cl;
    }
    catch (MalformedURLException exx)
    {
      throw new RuntimeException(exx);
    }                   
  }

  private static String getSwtJarName()
  {
    // Detect OS
    String osName = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase();    
    String swtFileNameOsPart = osName.contains("win") ? "win" : osName
        .contains("mac") ? "osx" : osName.contains("linux")
        || osName.contains("nix") ? "linux" : "";
    if ("".equals(swtFileNameOsPart))
    {
      throw new RuntimeException("Launch failed: Unknown OS name: " + osName);
    }

    // Detect 32bit vs 64 bit
    String swtFileNameArchPart = getArch();

    String swtFileName = "swt-" + swtFileNameOsPart + swtFileNameArchPart
        + "-3.6.2.jar";
    return swtFileName;
  }

  private static String getArch()
  {
    // Detect 32bit vs 64 bit
    String jvmArch = System.getProperty("os.arch").toLowerCase();
    String arch = (jvmArch.contains("64") ? "64" : "32");
    return arch;
  }
}

[EDIT] As stated above, for those looking for the "jar-in-jar classloader": It's included in Eclipse's JDT (the Java IDE built on Eclipse). Open org.eclipse.jdt.ui_*version_number*.jar with an archiver and you will find a file jar-in-jar-loader.zip inside. I renamed this to jar-in-jar-loader.jar.

intrace-ui.jar - this is the jar which I built using the process described above. You should be able to run this single jar on any of win32/64, linux32/64 and osx32/64.

[EDIT] This answer is now referenced from the SWT FAQ.

Create cross platform Java SWT Application

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