Re: Making a JAR

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:48:10 GMT
Message-ID:
<75767f4c7bb64@uwe>
hynespm wrote:
...

I am making a JAR file for a program in Swing. The Swing application
uses 5 external Jar files. Im having problems creating the manifest
file correctly and when i get my jar made, it cant find the main
class.


Does the jar contain a class with path & name of
start/Start.class ?

...Below is the mamifest file it contains the main-class variable
and the class path variable(I use this to point to the external jars,
if this is the incorrect way of doing it please let me know).


I think it is. The paths should be relative,
not absolute..

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: start.Start
Class-Path:
C:\Sun\jwsdp-2.0\jaxb\lib\jaxb-xjc.jar;


..so if the main jar lives in.. 'jaxb', that path would be..
lib/jaxb-xjc.jar
..note the forward slash, and lack of ';'. The example
in the JavaDocs shows two jars listed on the same
line, delimited by a space.

HTH

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