Generating Single Executable jar le

with all dependencies and libraries

using Netbeans and Eclipse

posted by Jitendra on January 19, 2015 under category JAVA and tagged as
Eclipse, jar le, NetBeans with 7 Comments

Generating Single Jar le with all dependencies in Eclipse is easy. We just need to
follow below steps :

1. Either from the context menu or from the menu bar’s File menu, select Export.
2. Expand the Java node and select JAR le. Click Next.
3. In the JAR File Speci cation page, select the resources that you want to export in
the Select the resources to export eld.
4. Select the appropriate checkbox to specify whether you want to Export generated
class les and resources or Export Java source les and resources. (Note: Selected
resources are exported in both cases.
5. If there are other les or resources you want to include they must be in a an open
project. Browse to their location via the directory tree on the left and ensure the
le or resource is checked in the window on the right.
6. In the Select the export destination eld, either type or click Browse to select a
location for the JAR le.
7. Select or clear the Overwrite existing les without warning checkbox. If you clear
this checkbox, then you will be prompted to con rm the replacement of each le
that will be overwritten.
8. Click Finish to create the JAR le immediately.
9. Now, navigate to the location you speci ed for the jar. The icon you see and the
behavior you get if you double click it will vary depending on how your computer
is set up.
10. You can use this article for images and more detail.
How to generate single jar le in NetBeans with all dependency and libraries :

Generating single jar le in eclipse is easy but  in NetBeans, libraries and

dependencies are not automatically combined in one jar le. However there is one
time setup required and generating jar le in NetBeans becomes easier than even
Eclipse.

Open “build.xml” le generated by NetBeans project and add below “<target>” tag
just before   “</project>” tag.

1 <target name="-post-jar">
2     <property name="store.jar.name" value="AllInOneJar"/>
3     <property name="store.dir" value="dist"/>
4     <property name="store.jar"
value="${store.dir}/${store.jar.name}.jar"/>
5     <echo message="Packaging ${application.title} into a single JAR at
${store.jar}"/>
6     <jar destfile="${store.dir}/temp_final.jar" filesetmanifest="skip">
7         <zipgroupfileset dir="dist" includes="*.jar"/>
8         <zipgroupfileset dir="dist/lib" includes="*.jar"/>
9         <manifest>
10             <attribute name="Main-Class" value="${main.class}"/>
11         </manifest>
12     </jar>
13     <zip destfile="${store.jar}">
14         <zipfileset src="${store.dir}/temp_final.jar"
15         excludes="META-INF/*.SF, META-INF/*.DSA, META-INF/*.RSA"/>
16     </zip>
17     <delete file="${store.dir}/temp_final.jar"/>
18 </target>

Share this post

       

Related posts

Advance Apex debugging in Salesforce and best practices – Videos

 Resolve Error : Eclipse SSH key is not matching the SSH key(s) that is associated
with your Heroku account
Automated Daily Backup of Salesforce Using ANT Migration Tool and GIT
Apex, Visualforce, Data Loader and SOQL Interview Question – Part 17
Using GIT with Force.com IDE – Video Tutorial
Edit Static Resource inside Force.com IDE Itself
Creating First Application in Heroku using Eclipse
Resolve Error “ArtifactTransferException: Could not transfer artifact” or
“Failure to Transfer” in Maven
Authenticate Git using SSH protocol with Eclipse and Egit – Salesforce
Salesforce + Git + Eclipse + EGIT = Better and Distributed Source Control

7 thoughts on “Generating Single Executable jar le

with all dependencies and libraries using Netbeans
and Eclipse”

Bikram Barthakur
September 6, 2016 at 3:18 pm

your code saved my day.. I am able to create a single application jar le with all
the library jars in it. Thanks and credits to you.

Jitendra Zaa
September 6, 2016 at 3:27 pm

Fantastic news Happy coding

Jayanta Pramanik
September 24, 2016 at 3:27 am
 I’m using NetBeans 8.0.2 and it is showing following error after adding target tag
just before project tag. tips needed.

Error : Unexpected element “{}target” {antlib:org.apache.tools.ant}target

Robert N Lockwood
August 6, 2018 at 2:24 pm

Netbeans 8.2
Get an error about duplicate name name=”-post-jar”

argos
May 12, 2018 at 10:12 pm

super Gracias

Kit S Kennedy
October 1, 2018 at 12:26 pm

I need help. I tried your solution and it seemed to work, but when I run it I get
ClassNotFoundException for a required class. I looked in the AllInOneJar.jar and it
is not there, but it is in one of the libraries that is added to the project. Any ideas?

fabiortsf
July 30, 2019 at 12:48 pm

This not work in 2019 NetBeans V11

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Since 2009 By Jitendra Zaa (formerly Shivasoft.in)