Java - Create JAR within Terminal
So Myself and
Kevin created a class file today and we wanted to create a Jar file using Terminal.
What we did to do this, is we used Terminal.
The short: If you want to create a Jar File:
jar cfe Main.jar Main Main.class
c: create File
f: File
e: Entry Point: The
main method
The Format is
jar cfe <Jar File to create> <Class with main method> <classes to include>
You can also use
jar cfe Main.jar Main *.class
So what we initially did was we created the jar file with the "Default Manifest File" which looked like :
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: 1.7.0_25 (Oracle Corporation)
As you can see this is missing the Main-Class pointer.
So then we did some more research and found we needed to include the Entry Point, our main method.
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: 1.7.0_25 (Oracle Corporation)
Main-Class: Main
Our Java code looked like:
public class Main{
public Main(){
System.out.println("Main");
}
public static void main(String[] args){
System.out.println("Main method");
new Main();
}
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