How can I specify any number of plug-in libraries (in the form of jar files) in the classpath when starting the application?

Question

Java

Hello. Faced with a limitation of the command line in Windows. My project is being built through a gradle, an automatically constructed bat-nickname is used to launch it. One of the last lines of this file is the line for launching the final application. And gradle adds to this line a list of all used libraries (and it's rather big). Accordingly, if the folder from which the application is launched has a large name, then nothing is launched. I think that this is not such a rare problem, and some solution should already be worked out, but so far, rummaging through the Internet, I have not found it. Tell me what to do, or at least how to look for it.

Answer 1

Use an asterisk which works as a wildcard "any jar in the directory"

java -cp path/to/dependencies/* package.name.ClassName

Answer 2

Options:
- copy all dependencies to jre/lib/ext
- collect all dependencies in 1 single jar and specify it as a dependency
- collect all dependencies inside your program then you don't even need to specify the classpath
- do not use long folder and file names
- load all dependencies directly by the most prog classloader before running the main code