Executable jar file

I am trying to create an executable jar file by doing the following, but when I run the jar file,
from an arbitrary directory where I copied the created jar file I get the error.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: suncertify/client/Fli
ghtdataPresenter

To create executable client.jar

ClientManifest contains the following lines

Where FlightdataPresenter contains the main() method.
To run the jar file I do the following

Please help to solve this problem.
Thank you
Garandi
[ January 13, 2003: Message edited by: Garandi Garandi ]

jar -cfvm client.jar ClientManifest scjd\starting\suncertify\client\*.*

Start your jar file creation at the starting level and this problem will go away. What's happening is your files package structure is looking like this starting.suncertify....
You want your jar file package to start at suncertify, so cd into your starting directory and run your previous command from there.

Thank you, but now I get the following error.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: suncertify/gui/Startu
pDialog
at suncertify.client.FlightdataPresenter.<init>(FlightdataPresenter.java
:20)
at suncertify.client.FlightdataPresenter.main(FlightdataPresenter.java:3
9)

Although StartupDialog is in gui.jar and gui.jar is in classpath.
Thank you
Garandi
[ January 13, 2003: Message edited by: Garandi Garandi ]

Garandi,
The Main-Class line in your mainfest file is a path, not a package name. It should look like this:
Main-Class: suncertify/client/FlightdataPresenter
Note the use of / instead of .
Ken Krebs, a.k.a kktec
SCJP 1.4

I dont think so I'm using

which works fine on xp, w2k, linux, solaris
hava a look at Sun's Tutorial
Bern
[ January 13, 2003: Message edited by: Bernhard Woditschka ]

Ken,
I guess Bernhard is right, Main-Class is not the problem.
Thank you
Garandi

Originally posted by Garandi Garandi:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: suncertify/gui/StartupDialog

Well? Is this class in your jar or not? If you constructed the jar using
jar -cfvm client.jar ClientManifest scjd\starting\suncertify\client\*.*
Then it will contain only the client package and subpackages. Make sure you include all classes you will need in the jar.
You can view the contents of a jar using the t flag:
jar -tf client.jar
HTH
- Peter

Peter

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: suncertify/gui/StartupDialog

StartupDialog.class is in a different jar file, namely gui.jar, and I have gui.jar in my classpath.
Thank you
Garandi

Originally posted by Garandi Garandi:
StartupDialog.class is in a different jar file, namely gui.jar, and I have gui.jar in my classpath.

That last point is irrelevant.
From the java tool documentation in the JDK:
-jar
Execute a program encapsulated in a JAR file. [...] When you use this option, the JAR file is the source of all user classes, and other user class path settings are ignored.
You will have to use a Class-Path manifest attribute.
- Peter

Thanks Peter.