how do you create a jar??? what is manifest.tmp??? am i the one to create it??? what should be in it??? please give me a step by step example thanks
Cindy Glass
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A Jar File is really just a zipped file containing all your classes in their subdirectories and associated files. The Manifest is the file that you create to go along with your jar to give the jvm a clue as to which of these zillion class files is the one that has the main method in it. Of course it does other stuff also. [ December 09, 2002: Message edited by: Cindy Glass ]
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Benjoe Reyes
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cindy, so i just type in one file (the source or the class file???)in a note pad and save as : manifest tmp???
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cindy, so i just type in one file (the source or the class file???)in a note pad and save as : manifest.tmp???
Rob Chung
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In your command line, do jar -help and you'll see the options available. e.g. To create a jar with all the classes within a directory: jar cvf mfJar.jar c:/myDir/*.class
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thanks rob
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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