Re: executing my application outside the IDE does not work
marcussilfver@gmail.com wrote:
I have application code that runs fine when executed from inside
Eclipse IDE.
However when I make a jar "myApp.jar" out of it then the jar does not
run. If I however remove a certain object of a certain class C from my
code and generates a new "myApp.jar", then the new jar runs fine
aswell.
The class C which I remove from the code to make it work is located in
an external jar "x.jar".
Inside the IDE, I have included x.jar in the buildpath of the project.
My thought is that the class C is not found in runtime when executing
"myApp.jar".
Where should I put the x.jar for the JRE to find when executing
myApp.jar?
Donkey Hot wrote:
To the classpath
java -cp .;/path/to/the/x.jar;/possible/other/jars -jar myApp.jar
There's no point in putting a -cp option there if you use -jar. The classpath
will be completely ignored due to the -jar option.
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/java.html>
When you use this option [-jar], the JAR file is the source of all user classes,
and other user class path settings are ignored.
The answer is the Class-Path manifest attribute
<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#Manifest%20Specification>
Place the library JAR in the same directory as the application JAR, or a
subdirectory, and reference it from the manifest of the application JAR.
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