J A R How To

[Benjoe Reyes]

how do you create a jar??? what is manifest.tmp??? am i the one to create it??? what should be in it???
please give me a step by step example
thanks

[Cindy Glass]

A Jar File is really just a zipped file containing all your classes in their subdirectories and associated files.
The Manifest is the file that you create to go along with your jar to give the jvm a clue as to which of these zillion class files is the one that has the main method in it. Of course it does other stuff also.
[ December 09, 2002: Message edited by: Cindy Glass ]

[Benjoe Reyes]

cindy,
so i just type in one file (the source or the class file???)in a note pad and save as : manifest tmp???

[Benjoe Reyes]

cindy,
so i just type in one file (the source or the class file???)in a note pad and save as : manifest.tmp???

[Rob Chung]

In your command line, do
jar -help
and you'll see the options available.
e.g. To create a jar with all the classes within a directory:
jar cvf mfJar.jar c:/myDir/*.class

[Benjoe Reyes]

thanks rob