Including exe in a jar

hi,
i want to include a .exe in a jar,how do i di it..actualy what my code does is that it calls a exe from inside which i have saved somewhere else..what i want is to get this exe included in jar so that i wil not have to save it newhere else..is it possible..
plz try help..

I would reply to that but I'll just stick with what
you gave me..... thx for replying anyway, at a first
look it seems as if I didn't specify the search
pattern anough to get a good score when seraching....
well thx for replyingDon't take it personally, this question has just been answered many times lately. I didn't feel like doing it again.

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Hello,
If I am not mistaken, by including the JAR file in the CLASSPATH (specifying the absolute path), or after the -classpath option after the java command (java -classpath jar_archive main_class), the system will find both files in the JAR archive.
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[svn] 3140: Modifying build. xml to include templates in the jar from the new location.

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Date: 2008-09-08 09:04:17 -0700 (Mon, 08 Sep 2008)
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Hi, ive just created an application and would like to
include a javahelp with it, ive got it running off my
local machine with the java helpset working too , but
what im wondering is, is it possbile to include
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