Thanks Puybaret
I've done some research since I posted and indeed el captain with java 9 has caused some problems with jars. For some reason 10.11 does not have the launcher from what i understand.
My next hurdle will be to to uninstall 9 (as it seams you can't install older versions over newer) since I'm not that proficient with the terminal haha
Thank you for the link since apple no longer supports legacy java