[PJUG Javamail] Packaging Java Applications

[Dan Colish]

Well, I'm just trying to package it so a user can clone my git repo and
easily build the source. This is not an eclipse plugin. It's just a
standard cli application. I'd like to include the dependency since its
licensed to allow that. FYI, the dependency is joda-time.

Does packaging into a jar allow this? I'm a little confused by the end
purpose of a jar. Also, if I do this outside of eclipse even better.
I've looked it ant, and it's what I am currently using to do the builds.

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--Dan


On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 02:18:29PM -0700, Aaron Getz wrote:
> Hey Dan,
>   I guess it depends on what you are initially trying to package up.  Is
> this an Eclipse plugin?  If so then you can just highlight the project and
> right click and then choose to export it and the PDE builder of Eclipse will
> handle the rest.
> 
>   In the case of a Eclipse plugin you would include the 3rd party lib in the
> jar file you create.
> 
>   If you are just looking to create a jar file that is your source code and
> then the consumer of your jar file is responsible for getting the
> dependencies needed for using your jar file.  If you want to include the
> jars along with your jar file then you can classpath the jars in your
> manifest file and make sure the user of your jar puts them in the path you
> specified or they can create their own classpath.
> 
> Here is a good tutorial on jar files from Sun
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/deployment/jar/
> 
> And here is another document on setting the classpath
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/windows/classpath.html
> 
> I hope that helps out.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Dan Colish <dan at unencrypted.org> wrote:
> 
> > So I need to packaage up some source code in an Eclipse project for
> > sharing. Normally, I'd just point someone to my git repo, but I have
> > included external libraries in my project. I'm now having some trouble
> > figuring out how to deal with this. Do I include that jar too? If so how
> > does the person run that without extensive setup? Isn't there a simple
> > way to include libraries like in C/C++ where I have an include and a
> > compat dir, then just link against them in my makefile? I'm new to Java
> > packaging so any help is appreciated.
> >
> > --
> > --Dan
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