Problem with packaging using ant

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Hi all.
I have the following structure:
Dir\src for source
Dir\build for class files
Dir\dist for storing the jar
Dir\images images used by the application
using ant, I want to create an executable jar file.
I wrote :

  
<target name="jaring" depends="compiling">
  <jar jarfile="${dist}/Manager.jar">
     <fileset dir="${build}"/>
     <fileset dir="${images}"/>
<manifest>
   <attribute name="Main-Class" value="com.Manager"/>
</manifest>
  </jar>
</target>

but the problem is, ant doesn't create images directory inside the Jar file, so the application will not working.
(when extracting the jar I found:
com/*.class
Meta-INF
image1.gif
image2.gif)
how to create the images directory inside the jar ??

[Nathaniel Stoddard]

You need to include your "images" directory as part of the build. Right now you are just including all the files inside the "images" directory. Try something like this:

<fileset dir="${images}/..">
  <include name="${images}/**"/>
</fileset>

That should work for you if your "images" property is the value you want to show up in your JAR. If you need a different name, you'd have to do something like copy all your images to a temp directory whose name is the one you want, then do the same sort of thing.

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Please look at my build file:

 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="Why" default="jaring" basedir=".">
  <property name="build" value="${basedir}/build"/>
  <property name="dist" value="${basedir}/dist"/>
  <property name="source" value="${basedir}/src"/>
  <property name="images" value="${basedir}/images"/>
  <target name="init">
<tstamp/>
  <mkdir dir="${build}"/>
  <mkdir dir="${dist}"/>
  </target>
  <target name="compiling" depends="init">
<javac srcdir="${source}" destdir="${build}"/>
  </target>
  <target name="jaring" depends="compiling">
<jar jarfile="${dist}/Why.jar">
<fileset dir="${build}"/>
                <fileset dir="${images}/..">
                         <include name="${images}/**"/>
</fileset>
<manifest>
   <attribute name="Main-Class" value="com.Manager"/>
</manifest>
</jar>
  </target>
</project> 

now, the jar doesn't include the the images at all !!
how to create the images directory inside the jar ?
please help ....

[Nathaniel Stoddard]

The nested include inside the fileset needs to be a relative URI. Since you have your "basedir" portion of your images attribute it messes everything up. Change to this:

<fileset dir="${images}/..">
  <include name="images/**"/>
</fileset>

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Thanks you alot.
but there is the last problem.
I have the class Manager under the package com, and as you see I have specified it within the manifest tag:
<attribute name="Main-Class" value="com.Manager"/>
but the jar file don't launch (it launch if I put my class without a package)....
so what is the problem ?
I appreciate your help...