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Runnable Jar with referenced libraries

843789Mar 30 2010 — edited Mar 30 2010

I wrote this program on eclipse 3.5.2 to use at work and I imported an external jar to allow me to do some things with excel "jxl.jar";. Now I'm finished with my program and it works great on my computer and if I export to "Runable Jar" I can have this nice little .jar file on my desktop that runs my program. However if I give it to a co-worker it does not work properly. The part that doesn't seem to work is the button that does the calculations on a excel spreadsheet. So, I concluded that the imported jxl.jar file isn't being packed into my final jar. I have tried exporting to plain Jar, Runable Jar, Fat Jar, with just about every possible combination of settings possible. I don't know anything about ANT but I looked at the output from one of them and I noticed this line "zipfileset excludes" which seemly confirms my conclusion.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?> 
- <project default="create_run_jar" name="Create Runnable Jar for Project PSF_Checker">
- <!-- this file was created by Eclipse Runnable JAR Export Wizard
  --> 
- <!-- ANT 1.7 is required                                        
  --> 
- <target name="create_run_jar">
- <jar destfile="C:/Documents and Settings/USER/Desktop/PSF Checker.beta.jar" filesetmanifest="mergewithoutmain">
- <manifest>
  <attribute name="Main-Class" value="psf_checker.PSF_Checker" /> 
  <attribute name="Class-Path" value="." /> 
  </manifest>
  <fileset dir="C:/Documents and Settings/USER/workspace/PSF_Checker/bin" /> 
  <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="C:/Documents and Settings/USER/workspace/PSF_Checker/bin/jxl.jar" /> 
  </jar>
  </target>
  </project>