Pin a .jar to the taskbar (read post for specifics)

I'd like to pin a .jar file to the taskbar, but in a way, that the pinned icon doesn't open a new instance of the program on the task bar, but uses the pinned icon itself as the application taskbar button.


javaw.exe -jar "C:\path\to\executable.jar"
cmd.exe /c "C:\path\to\executable.jar"

both create new instances on the taskbar, and these are the only two solutions I could come up with. I know that they create new instances, because the targets of the respective pinned icons are cmd.exe and javaw.exe, while the .jar file is just an argument, so basically I would need a way to pin the .jar file as target to my taskbar, I just don't know how (if it's possible at all).

Thanks in advance!

hello ,to the best of my knowledge you can only pin program icons to the taskbar ,pining a file format [like.jar]icon to the taskbar will just open the program associated to the file type .in your case java . to the best of my knowledge that how it will work

Yes, that is the problem. I can only pin executable files to the taskbar, and a java app is not an executable per se.

I even tried an exe wrapper, but that doesn't really solve anything, since the wrapper extracts the jar file first, then runs it, so in appearance it's not any different than just pinning a shortcut with the aforementioned two commands to the taskbar.

A late reply but I was just looking for this and found it out myself. The reason is when you write javaw.exe, it does not map to the exact same location as when the process spawns. The path of the spawned process has to match the shortcut's path in order not to spawn a new icon.

For example, my shortcut is "C:\Java\Jdk8x64\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "executable.jar"

Yea, I ended up with a similar solution. I just pinned javaw.exe to my taskbar, and I'm accessing the jar file through its jump list.