how to refer a jar outside executable in desktop application?

[amit malpure]

Hi,

I have a desktop java application and want to use some classes outside the executable. How can I do it?

Thanks
Amit

[Jesper de Jong]

Welcome to the Ranch!

If the application is in an executable jar file (it's a jar file that you double-click to run, or that you can start with the command: java -jar TheProgram.jar), then you have to add the external classes to the classpath in the manifest file of the executable jar.

The tutorial Packaging Programs in JAR Files explains how executable jar files can be created and how to set the classpath in the manifest file.

[amit malpure]

Thanks Jesper for the responce.

Let me explain the scenario:

I have java application installed. And the jar is bundlled into an .exe file using some installer tool. Now I want to create a patch for this application.

If I create another jar containing updated files only, how can I refer it in the original code?

Please guide.

Thanks
Amit

[Maneesh Godbole]

If I create another jar containing updated files only, how can I refer it in the original code?

Short answer: As long as the new jar is on the classpath, it should work.

Long answer: It would depend on how the "patch" works. Does it involve code changes to your original classes? Does it involve new classes? If yes, how is the original jar supposed to use the new classes without any changes to the original code? Anything else?

[Paul Clapham]

amit malpure wrote:I have java application installed. And the jar is bundlled into an .exe file using some installer tool. Now I want to create a patch for this application.

That's a question about the (un-named) installer tool.

[amit malpure]

Thanks for the reply.

Now I am able to refer a jar outside exe after specifiying proper class path. Now I am working on how to use code from new jar instead of code from old jar inside the exe?

Does it involve code changes to your original classes? Yes.
Does it involve new classes? Yes

Thanks
Amit