executable jars

I've seen a few demo's were they have made executable jars. How can these
be created?

thanks for your time,

goodnick

You need to create a manifest file.

A sample file would be like

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created by: Your name
Main-Class: myPath.to.your.Main
Classpath:

Save this file as MANIFEST.MF in a directory called META-INF. The
Main-Class you define is your java class that has public static void
main(String[] args) where the entire app will run from.

Your directory structure will look like this

/
/myPath/to/your/Main
/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

jar this up by typing

jar cvfM myApp.jar myPath META-INF

now to run the app type

java -jar myApp.jar

Hope this helps..
-Patrick
goodnick wrote:
>
> I've seen a few demo's were they have made executable jars. How can these
> be created?
>
> thanks for your time,
>
> goodnick