Java Glossary : association

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association

In SQL, a many to many relationship between tables. In windows, a hare-brained scheme to associate file name extensions with the applications that process them. It is hard to use, buggy and irregular beyond belief.

You set them up in Start | Settings control panel | folder options | file types | advanced . In Windows 2K/XP you can now sort the list by extension or filetype by clicking on the heading. You commonly set up edit for example to use your editor in preference to wordpad for a given extension, e.g.

E:\vslick\win\vs.exe "%1"

The quote marks help deal with filenames containing spaces. The %1 is where the filename to edit will be inserted.

There are also another set of associations in your browser between extensions, MIME types and programs to deal with those documents.

One of the most useful associations to set up is to make *.jar files executable with java.exe.

associations project ¤ browser ¤ making jar files executable ¤ MIME types

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