How to build a jar in NetBeans 6.9?

Question

When I press "build project" it NetBeans builds, as far as I could find, separate class files. How can I set it to build them into a jar file? Even better it'd be if I can build several applications (all separately runnable from command line) from one project.

I code Scala 2.8.

Answer 1

Using the Run > Clean and Build Main Project command in NetBeans puts your program's JAR in a folder named dist located at the root level of the project; any associated libraries go in dist/lib. As discussed here, a JAR's manifest may have only one Main-Class attribute, but the JAR itself may have an arbitrary number of classes that declare a main() method.

Addendum: Here is a concrete example using H2 Database.

$ java -cp h2.jar org.h2.tools/Console -help
$ java -cp h2.jar org.h2.tools/Server -help
$ java -cp h2.jar org.h2.tools/Shell -help

Addendum: External libraries are often added via the Library Manager.