Re: Could not find Main Class while executing JAR

From:

Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:12:16 -0400

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Lars Enderin wrote:

Lew skrev:

Lars Enderin wrote:

You have to include the full path of the jar file to Class-Path, if you
refer to it outside the dist folder.

According to
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/deployment/jar/downman.html>
that is not true. Relative paths work just fine.

Ok, but relative to what? He copied the program to a place outside the
dist folder, but did not copy the dist/lib/log4j* jar file to the same
place, apparently.

What is the "dist" folder?

The provided link explains it all, if you follow it.

Note : The Class-Path header points to classes or JAR files on the local network

In other words, relative to the directory in which the application JAR is
installed.

From the same link:

An Example

We want to load classes in MyUtils.jar into the class path for use in MyJar.jar.
These two JAR files are in the same directory.
We first create a text file named Manifest.txt with the following contents:

Class-Path: MyUtils.jar

--
Lew