I was recently modifying some custom JDBC code that is meant to work inside of Tomcat where a JNDI naming context has been setup with a reference for a javax.sql.DataSource. ( Read more... )

I’ve needed something like this for a while now, but haven’t ever gotten around to implementing it. It’s just a simple little python script that takes, as a command line input, an Eclipse launcher, parses the classpath and argument info from the .classpath file and the launcher, and execs java to run the the class.

It’s certainly not complete (right now, it only picks up output folders and libs , the argument list splitting may be different than what Eclipse’s splitter, and it assumes it lives in a direct subdirectory of the project), but it’s a start.

( The script (run-launcher.py) )