Running Jars

[R Hadow]

I have been experimenting with making my own JAR files.
Some of which work and some don't. After hours of altering the application I haven't been able work out why they sometimes work and sometimes don't.

When the JAR file won't run I get an Exception in thread "Main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError ,but at other times
I get an Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: MyClass (Bad magic number).

I create and run the jar file using the following steps:

1/ I create a manifest file, saved as"info"

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: 1.4.1_05
Main-Class: MyClass

2/ Create a java file "MyClass.java"
Public MyClass {
public static void main(String args[])
{
System.out.println("MyClass running");
}
}

3/ Create a class file "MyClass.class"
javac Myclass.java

4/ Test the application... java MyClass

5/ Create a Jar file .........jar cmf info MyJar.jar MyClass.class
6/ Run the jar file...........java -jar MyJar.jar

I don't understand why it compiles and runs ok, but i get exceptions thrown when i attempt to run the jar.
I would be very grateful for any help
???

Rob Hadow

[Barry Gaunt]

Checkout Dirk's Threads on (executable) jar files.

[Jim Tonn]

You seem to be doing everything right. I tried what you are trying and it works fine for me. I get the feeling that you may have some kind of version problems. Are you running a new version of javac but an older version of jar?