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How to create JAR-Files with Packages

Posted by Martin Gineiger on August 16, 2001 at 3:28 AM

> I have a directory called program6
> and inside i have 4 packages.
> One of the packages have my main method in it which
> will execute the program on demand.

> How would i create an executable jar with this???

You should start at the classpath-folder. From there, you can add files to the jar-file by using the relative file name. For example:
jar cvf test.jar myPackage/*.class
Take care that you use
Main-Class: myPackage.MyClass.class
in the Manifest-File