Till now, I have been using Netbeans IDE for Java Applications. To distribute applications made in Netbeans, I just click on clean and build and it packs the application in .jar file which resides in a dist directory.
Now I have made a java project in Eclipse. Is Eclipse has any functionality similar to clean and build functionality of Netbeans by which we can pack java applications to distribute them.
You can right-click the project, select Export and choose Java, then JAR as the format.
File -> Export...
And choose Java -> JAR File. You will get a wizard to export any of your projects
Yes it has a clean and build functionality. clean which clean all the developed a classes from the specified location build which builds the class files at the same specified location respectively.
To distribute a project as a jar then you have to right click on the project and select export and in that select as jar.