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Asked: 2026-06-17T09:20:10+00:00

I’m building a website which will use files in order to render social graphs.

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I’m building a website which will use files in order to render social graphs. These files are created by a backend in JAVA. This JAVA program consists of 4 classes and 4 libraries. I know that in order to run a JAVA program through PHP, I need to call it with the “exec” command but all the examples I saw have .jar executables and not .java files in the syntax. So, I’d like to ask two questions:

  1. Is it possible to call just the .java main class from PHP without creating a .jar file? And if so, what’s the syntax of the “exec” command?
  2. If I have to create the .jar executable, would I just have to place it in the website folder and just call it? I mean, does the .jar file contain all the classes and libraries that the program needs? I don’t talk about JAVA libraries, I have 4 specific libraries (MongoDB, Neo4j, GEXF parser and Lucene DB) which are not part of Java defaults. Thanks in advance and please forgive my syntax and spelling mistakes.
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  1. Editorial Team

    You have to at a minimum compile the .java files into .class files. It would be easier if they are in a jar file, but that is not required.

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    a) java -cp /location/to/.class/files

    b) java -jar /location/to/the.jar

    2) the jar file does not have to be executable, though if that makes it easier, set the manifest up correctly and there you go.

    When you say libraries, you mean other .jar files or native .dll or .so libraries? If the later, you have to have your library path setup to find them.

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