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how to make a executable jar files

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Lloyd Harlow Yap via JavaKB.com wrote:
> how to make a executable jar files
>

I'd Google on Manifest-files. You have to create a jar (with the
commandline jar tool that is included in the JDK) that contains your
classfiles (in directories that match the packages) and a directory
MANIFEST. That dir contains the manifest-file (google!) with the
classpath and the main class.


T.

On 14.04.2005 11:34 Lloyd Harlow Yap via JavaKB.com wrote:
> how to make a executable jar files
>

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jar/

Lloyd Harlow Yap via JavaKB.com wrote:
> how to make a executable jar files
>

If you do not have a tool, this will work (assumes *ix terminal). On
Windows you could probably right mouse click on something in the filemanger:

1. jar cvf myjar.jar myclass.class

2. jar -xf myjar.jar

3. cp META-INF/MANIFEST.MF .

4. vi MANIFEST.MF

5. add this line

Main-Class: mypackage.Class1

or whatever class in the package has the main method

5. jar -cvmf MANIFEST.MF myjar.jar myclass.class

java -jar myjar.jar