JARs inside my JAR

Hi Folks,
I'm creating a JAR file for my application. My app uses another JAR file and I want to package it inside my jar.
I tried to use "Path-Class" attribute in MANIFEST.MF file but without success.
Any help would be appreciate.
TIA.
Romualdo Rubens de Freitas

I wonder how you missed to recognize that jars DO contain jars for four years, as you subscribed in 2001.
Of course the standard class loader cannot handle jars in jars, but many solutions do exist for this problem. (It was really a problem, since almost all java applications are required to ship with jars inside jars).
The best solution I encountered, is the fat_jar plugin for eclipse. If you are not an eclipse user try ONEJar.
Being silent is sometimes better than to provide non-solutions for problems for which solutions exist.

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