Friday, November 23, 2012

Creation of executable JAR file with dependent libraries

1.Create Manifest file with following entries

     a.Class-Path: <lib1.jar> <lib2.jar> <path/lib3.jar>

     b.Main-Class: <classname>

     c.Place a new line at the end of this file

2. use "jar" command to create jar

    jar cvfm <your_jar_file.jar> <manifest_file>  <class_files> <libraries>             

3. To execute jar using unix command

   java -jar <your_jar_file.jar>




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