Java App Launcher, Launch Java Apps without installation Options

[rrashkin]

Greeting all.
This may not be interesting to anyone else but I like it:
I have several Java apps that I wrote for various reasons. I really find the whole IPK thing a major hassle as these are really just for me. I was content for a while to run my apps from the console (I wrote a bash script to list my classes and give me a choice) but it ocurred to me that it would be good to have a "launcher app" that I could put on the desktop that would read a text file (zlnch.txt) of otherwise stand-alone apps and luanch them. That way, any new app I write, I just copy the classes off to my CF card and edit the text file and I'm done. The apps need to have a argument-less constructor and basically do nothing in "main" but call the constructor.

So, anyway, if anyone is interested:

CODE

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;

class jlnch extends Frame  {
//    class data
static TextField appnm;
static String rs;
static Choice apln=new Choice();
//    main method
    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
    //Initilaize
   apln.add("");
       BufferedReader iniFile = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("zlnch.txt"));
       while ((rs =iniFile.readLine()) != null) {apln.add(rs);}
       apln.addItemListener(new ItemListener(){
            public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e)  {
                   String ct = apln.getSelectedItem();
                   try {
                           Class cls = Class.forName(ct);
                           cls.newInstance();
                   }
                   catch (ClassNotFoundException e2) { }
                   catch (IllegalAccessException e3) { }
                   catch (InstantiationException e4) { }
            }
       });
    //call constructor
        jlnch jl1 = new jlnch();
    }
//   constructor method
     public jlnch() {
 setTitle("app launcher");
 addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
     public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
   System.exit(0);
     }
 });
         ScrollPane sp = new ScrollPane();
         Panel p0 = new Panel();
         p0.setLayout(new GridLayout(1,0));
         p0.add(apln);
         //
         sp.add(p0);
         sp.setSize(200,40);
         add("Center", sp);
     pack();
 show();
     }
}