windows - Run a JAR file using a specific JRE

Question

Is there a way on Windows to run a JAR file using a JRE located in a specific folder? Similar to the way Eclipse looks for its JRE in some path you give to it. Either some windows executable code (C or C++) or a Batch file will do the job. Thanks!

Answer 1

A JRE directory has a bin/java.exe.

You can run a jar from that JRE simply with

<path_to_jre>/bin/java.exe -jar Executable.jar

If you don't want to have to open a console each time, simply put the above line in a .bat file and double click on that.