Re: jar execution problem
On 05/25/2011 08:25 AM, Sascha wrote:
Hello,
i got a problem with execution of jar files.
I used the following command to create a jar file.
jar -vcfm dice.jar MANIFEST.TXT dice
In the folder dice the Dice.class is located.
The file MANIFEST.TXT contains only the following line
Main-Class: Dice
When I try to execute the jar file with
java -jar dice.jar
I got the error message
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Dice
I hope somebody else got the same problem and can help me out.
Thanks in advance for the help.
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Does your Dice source file have a package statement? If you are running
the jar program from the directory above dice it will store the class
files as dice/Dice.class and that must match with the package statement
in the source file.
So as not to ask you a lot of questions, do this:
1) put your source files in the dice directory.
2) put a 'package dice;' statement in all source files
3) compile from the directory above dice with 'javac dice/Dice.java'
4) put the manifest file in dice and
in it put the line 'Main-Class: dice.Dice'
5) run the jar program from the directory above dice with
'jar -cvfm Dice.jar dice/manifest dice/*.class dice/anyotherfiles'
I usually keep my manifest file in the same directory but it isn't
necessary.
You can use the 'e' option and skip using a manifest file it the only
thing in it is the Main-Class statement.
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