I dislike java commandline tools for a number of reasons, including their typical extreme verbosity in arguments and lack of one letter substitutes. Another reason is that typically they do not have a simple shortcut which can be used to run them, you have to do something ugly like
java -jar lib/blah/blue/file.jar other_argumentsEven if the developer is nice enough to include a wrapping script they often assume you will be running the program from the directory the java program resides in. There is no way to run the program from your working directory.
However if java developers would simply use this idiom in their wrapping scripts people could simply make a symlink to the wrapper and put it in their PATH, and everything would work nicely.
java -jar `dirname "$(readlink -f $0)"`/lib/blah/blue/file.jar other_arguments