-classpath is the bane of my existence

I think I was born without the portion of the brain that comprehends the -classpath argument. Because I can do everything else just fine, but I don't think I've ever gotten that to work. Usually I resort to sticking jarfiles in the jre/lib/ext directory, but I know I shouldn't have to do that.
I've got 2 jarfiles:
someapp.jar
utilities.jar
someapp is a packaged application. utilities is a packaged set of utilitites.
If I put utilities.jar in jre/lib/ext, someapp.jar works fine.
Right now I've got utilities.jar in the same directory as someapp.jar and another copy in a com\foo\bar subdirectory that corresponds to the utilities package.
None of the following works:
java -classpath . -jar someapp.jar
java -classpath utilities.jar -jar someapp.jar
java -classpath utilities -jar someapp.jar
java -classpath .\utilities -jar someapp.jar
java -classpath .\utilities.jar -jar someapp.jar
java -classpath com\foo\bar -jar someapp.jar
java -classpath com\foo\bar\ -jar someapp.jar
java -classpath com\foo\bar\utilities -jar someapp.jar
java -classpath com\foo\bar\utilities.jar -jar someapp.jar
java -classpath .\com\foo\bar -jar someapp.jar
java -classpath .\com\foo\bar\ -jar someapp.jar
java -classpath .\com\foo\bar\utilities -jar someapp.jar
java -classpath .\com\foo\bar\utilities.jar -jar someapp.jar
So I have systematically eliminated any reasonable command-line I can concieve of. What's the right one, and am I a complete idiot for not knowing it, or is the classpath system inherently confusing even to veteran java developers?

What's the right one, and am I a complete idiot for not knowing it, or is
the classpath system inherently confusing even to
veteran java developers?Options -classpath and -jar don't work in conjunction.
When using -jar you need to set the Class-Path property of the Jar's manifest file.

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