[PJUG Javamail] Packaging Java Applications

[Kent Spaulding]

Ah, okay, I misunderstood.

One option is Netbeans, which keeps its project files as ant files and  
they can simply be built via ant, without requiring the tools. ;-)

Other than that, I simply put external libs into a <project-dir>/lib  
directory and then write an ant script that builds the project -  
testing it from outside eclipse.  One of the ant targets creates  
a .zip that is the project to be distributed.

--Kent

On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Dan Colish wrote:

> I'm really not that interested in a runable jar, thats pretty easy to
> produce within eclipse. I'm trying to properly setup a java project  
> that
> uses external libraries and builds correctly without requiring  
> eclipse.
> My main concern is the directory structure for the project and any  
> build
> files that are required. I have looked at the ant build.xml files,  
> and I
> am working on that currently, but that is really complex.  Even if I
> can't do this without eclipse, I am confident there is a proper way to
> do this that does not require an couple hours of setup.  I've gotta be
> doing something wrong here. The current project is a simple one, but I
> would like to understand the correct way to do this for future  
> projects.
>
> --
> --Dan
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:23:09PM -0700, Kent Spaulding wrote:
>> Ant is one means - if all you care about is the executable then use
>> eclipse's 'Runnable Jar' feature.
>>
>> For you project, click File|Export.. and in the treeview select as in
>> the attached screenshot.  It will allow you choose what to bundle.
>>
>> If your version of eclipse doesn't do this, there is a plugin called
>> FatJar that will (which is where this feature came from)
>>
>> The resulting jar file is run as:
>>
>> java -jar myjar.jar <arguments>
>>
>> --Kent
>>
>
>
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