How to run JabRef (PowerPC version) on Mac OSX Lion

JabRef failed to start from its launcher complaining "You can't open the application JabRef.app because PowerPC applications are no longer supported (on Lion)". Then Google told me there's a way to create so-called Universal Binary which lets PowerPC apps work on Intel Mac. However, looks like Lion installation did a lot of other NICE things that knocked out Xcode (development environment on Mac) 4.0 as well... S@cks! I've already started to dislike this company's bureaucratic monopoly from developer's standpoint, but since I still like their products, I think I just have to hold on. For JabRef, here's a workaround without newly installing anything.

Step-1. Open the terminal ("Applications" -> "Utilities" -> "Terminal.app")
Step-2. Go to the top directory where JabRef.app is at.
Step-3. type in following command:

java -jar Contents/Resources/Java/JabRef-2.6.jar &

# Paths etc. needs to be tailored depending on your environment.

This should basically launch JabRef that exists in your computer.

For the future convenience, you can create batch file by making text file that has the sentence above inside, add .sh as suffix of the filename, and change the execution mode by something like this:

chmod 755 JabRef.sh

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Author on top of the Amboy Crater, CA., pondering over Lion (not true).