required libraries in a jar file

[drsmooth]

i have been working on a program to generate and play chords through midi. to do this i got jfugue an awesome jar external library...i included it through jcreator and it worked great...however when i make it into a jar file it no longer works...i had this problem in another of my programs and i strongly believe ive narrowed it down to the fact the libraries i import in jcreator are not being included or not being found when i run the jar file...any help on how to fix this problem?

thanks alot ,
ken

[BigDaddyLH]

i have been working on a program to generate and play chords through midi. to do this i got jfugue an awesome jar external library...i included it through jcreator and it worked great...however when i make it into a jar file it no longer works...i had this problem in another of my programs and i strongly believe ive narrowed it down to the fact the libraries i import in jcreator are not being included or not being found when i run the jar file...any help on how to fix this problem?

thanks alot ,
ken

I don't know from jcreator, but your jar file has a class-path entry in its manifest, which tells your jar where to look for library jars and what jars to look for. This Sun tutorial explains how to do it:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/deployment/jar/index.html

[drsmooth]

is there a way that the jar library could be included in my executable jar that im making? i kinda wanted this all to fit in one jar file

[r035198x]

is there a way that the jar library could be included in my executable jar that im making? i kinda wanted this all to fit in one jar file

Did you read the tutorial in the link above?

[drsmooth]

yes but im not sure i understood how it is goin to work...should i extract the library jar into my executable jar? or shud i jus add it to the jar as a jar itself?

[drsmooth]

okay, perhaps a part i overlooked...i figured it out thank you very much. turns out it was as simple as adding a line to the manifest.txt


thanks alot,
ken

[r035198x]

okay, perhaps a part i overlooked...i figured it out thank you very much. turns out it was as simple as adding a line to the manifest.txt


thanks alot,
ken

That's good news. I was starting to get worried ...