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How to search Jar files using Windows Search?

I believe back when we were on Win2K, Windows Search would search through Jar files to locate specific classes but this doesn't appear to work in XP. Does anyone know how to enable this in XP? Note, to do the search in Win2K we just entered *.jar for the files and "ClassABC" for the search text string and the search would return any ja...

Can maven sign not only produced jar, but also dependencies

I managed to create main jar, copy dependencies to a single directory, the only step left is to sign all jars. I can sign my own produced jar as a part of jar:sign, but how do i sign dependencies? Thanks ...

Merging Multiple Jars in to a Single Jar

my application needs multiple jars to work. Since it is a desktop application i can not hold the user responsible of installing. So in my build script i unzip the jars content in to my build directory delete manifest files, compile my software and jar it again. Everything works as it should my question is are there any long term side eff...

Java - getting jar dependencies right

Hi I'm relatively new to Java & maven, and so to get to know my way around, I decided to do a project as a means for learning. I picked a pretty common stack : Java 1.6 Hibernate (with annotations) Spring (with annotations) JUnit 4 Tomcat Oracle XE / In-mem hsqldb By far one of the biggest problems I've experienced is getting the ...

Ant Script Example

I would like to make a very simple ant script that does 1 thing, which is to bulid a jar file. But when I try to use a very simple example, it fails due to dependancies on jars that my source depends on. So, How you you specify jars that there are jars that need to be in the class path when building an Ant target. <project name="proje...

Does using compilers from different JDK versions on the same source file break (de-)serialization?

I have a distributed application. The client and the servers share some common libraries. The client has to be compiled with a JDK 5 compiler or with target=1.5 (run anywhere also on PowerPC and CoreDuo Macs). But I would like to use SE 6 features in the server-only code. Is it ok to compile the common libraries twice - once with a JDK ...

JAR file not opening on a Mac

Hi guys, I have been trying to open a JAR file on my Mac with no success. It says the JAR file could not be opened and asks me to look for any error messages in my console. Here are the console messages, I suspect the prob is in the first line itself, but I am not from software background, so don't know if this is enough for anyone who ...

How to check whether an executable JAR has finished in another JVM

Hi, guys, I encounter a confusing issue! I want to invoke a executable JAR to compute PI from my main java applicaion using runtime.exec(), which create a new JVM for running the executable JAR. My issue is that when the PI computation is done, the JVM is still alive. my main java application has no idea whether PI computation is finishe...

Jar executable that cannot be decompiled

How can I package my Java application into an executable jar that cannot be decompiled (for example , by Jadclipse)? ...

How do I add an Implementation-Version value to a jar manifest using Maven?

I'd like to add an Implementation-Version line to a manifest in my jar file that reflects the POM version number. I can't for the life of me work out how to do this using the jar plugin. Is this possible? ...

How do I add an Implementation-Version value to a jar manifest using Maven's assembly plugin?

I'd like to add an Implementation-Version line to a manifest in my jar file that reflects the POM version number, using the maven assembly plugin. Note that this is similar but different to another of my recent questions about the jar plugin. ...

Can an executable .jar file be called without having to use its full path?

I have a .jar file that I would like to be able to call without having to use a full file path to its location. For example, if the .jar file is located at: /some/path/to/thearchive.jar I'd like to be able to run it with: java -jar thearchive.jar instead of: java -jar /some/path/to/thearchive.jar when I'm elsewhere in the direct...

problem with loading a jar file which has dependency to another jar file

I have a problem while loading my jar file at run time. My hotel.jar is loaded and a method of it (makeReservation) is invoked using the following code: File file = new File("c:/ComponentFiles/hotel.jar"); URL jarfile = new URL("jar", "", "file:" + file.getAbsolutePath() + "!/"); URLClassLoader cl = URLClassLoader.newInstance(new URL[]{...

Packaging Jar

Hi, It has been a frustrating day trying to package multiple plugins and their property files into an executable jar. How to I package these plugins into a single jar, leaving the properties files outside: - pluginA with pluginA.properties - pluginB with pluginB.properties - pluginC that requires pluginA and pluginB The property files...

How do I access a config file inside the jar?

I'm using FlatPack to parse and load data from flat files. This requires loading a config file that stores mappings of the columns of the flat file. I have a constant to define the location of the mapping file: private static final String MAPPING_FILE = "src/com/company/config/Maping.pzmap.xml"; I have a parse(File dataFile) method ...

Jar from HTML

A third party library I'm utilizing provided the JavaDoc HTML and associated bin files in a zip file. How can I create a jar file from the JavaDoc HTML? Thanks. ...

Java: problem running a jar file in command line

Hi! I'm trying to call a class (main method) from command line (Windows) with Java. The class imports other classes (other jars). I always get "class not found exception" from a class that my main program imports. Here's what I tried: Add a CLASSPATH env. var with the path where the referenced lib resides (not working) I tried with ...

Re-compile a Java Class from Jar

I have an executable jar that has one class file with a wrong value. I requested that file from the author and corrected the value. Now I want to compile it and add the compiled class file into the jar and run it. Not surprisingly I get multiple "cannot find symbol" errors for references of custom object that were in the jar file. ...

How to explore which classes are loaded from which JARs?

Is there a way to determine which classes are loaded from which jars at runtime? I'm sure we've all been in JAR hell before. I've run across this problem a lot troubleshooting ClassNotFoundExceptions and NoClassDefFoundErrors on projects. I'd like to avoid finding all instances of a class in jars and using process of elimination on the...

System.out not working when calling jar-file from Windows command line

I have this class: public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } } And I used Eclipse's "Export to runnable JAR" function to make it into a executable jar-file (test.jar). When I run this program in Eclipse, it prints out "Hello World!", but when I call the jar-file from the com...