I've been struggling with learning game architectures. This paper by Michael Doherty might be quite a few years old, but it managed to give me some direction that I didn't seem to find elsewhere on the net.

A Software Architecture for Games

I believe it is a component based design?

jon.kiparsky, on 30 March 2012 - 10:44 AM, said:

Yes, I installed the 1.7 JRE and that fixed things(I can dclick 1.7 JARs and they run). I still see my 1.6 JRE in the 32 bit directory after installation though. At least I can run my programs made w/ 1.7 now. Thanks.

Command Prompt:

C:\Users\Achri\Desktop\Mancala>java -jar Mancala.jar

Starts my application, the JFrame window with the JPanels pops up.

Window:

C:\Users\Achri\Desktop\Mancala

dclicking the Mancala.jar gives me the error:
"Could not find the main class: MancalaMain. Program will exit.


Since I created the .jar at the command prompt and the manifest is like so:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: 1.7.0_02 (Oracle Corporation)
Main-Class: MancalaMain

When I double click, I am trying to open a .jar created using Java 1.7, but what Windows is actually using is still 1.6?
And the command prompt just happens to know what to use?

So should I somehow figure out how to force Windows to be using my Java 1.7 build, instead of the 1.6? I ran into a similar problem when I was creating .JARs in Eclipse, I had to change the compliance level to 1.6 or lower to dclick them outside of eclipse.

I'm also a little confused where 'seats' is coming from?
If seats is a Seat, then seats.get does nothing? Because there is no get method inside of Seat(there's a getPrice and getCount). There are plenty more of these types of things.

It would appear you left out code, or you included code that doesn't needed to be included.

Thank you both for your well written answers.

I removed my packaging on my Mancala game I've been working on. And now I compiled and jarred it.
Last question for the night:

Why does this work:

C:\Users\Achri\Desktop\Mancala>java -jar Mancala.jar

but double clicking it, pops up

"Could not find the main class: MancalaMain. Program will exit." ?

My manifest file inside of the .jar:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: 1.7.0_02 (Oracle Corporation)
Main-Class: MancalaMain

It shouldn't be the manifest file since I can run the program on the command line.