Building executable JavaFX jar with Ant script

[Matt Dalen]

Hi, all,

I'm currently writing a JavaFX program on Eclipse. I have the program written, and it's running properly in Eclipse, but I'm having trouble creating the Ant script to build it. I'm using a couple of external jars (xstream, log4j), and when I run the jar, it throws exceptions, saying it can't find classes that should be in the external jars.

I've tried including the jars in fx:resources, as so, but it doesn't seem to work:

<fx:resources id="jars"> <fx:fileset dir="${LIB}" includes="xstream-1.3.jar" /> <fx:fileset dir="${LIB}" includes="log4j-1.2.16.jar" /> </fx:resources>

This is my fx:jar task:
<fx:application id="app" mainClass="com.installer.Installer" /> <fx:jar destfile="${build}/installer.jar"> <fx:application refId="app" /> <fx:resources refid="jars" /> <fx:fileset dir="${classes}"/> <manifest> <attribute name="Implementation-Vendor" value="Vendor"/> <attribute name="Implementation-Title" value="Installer"/> <attribute name="Implementation-Version" value="0.5"/> </manifest> </fx:jar>

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Matt Dalen]

I think I figured out a workaround.