Problem generating jar file

Question

Hello everybody,
I have a problem with the generation of a jar file.
The script should run from the command line with a parameter but i get every time this error message when i try to run it:
Call is like that:
java -jar new.jar "some path parameter"
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jfree/ui/ApplicationFrame
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jfree.ui.ApplicationFrame
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        ... 12 more
Could not find the main class: real_cell_search.Verify_TestRun. Program will exit.It seems that it cannot find the ApplicationFrame.class, but it is inside the jar file, inside the jcommon-1.0.16.jar which is included in the generated jar.
The *.classpath* file looks like that:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<classpath>
     <classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>
     <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.6"/>
     <classpathentry kind="lib" path="res/jcommon-1.0.16.jar"/>
     <classpathentry kind="lib" path="res/jfreechart-1.0.13.jar"/>
     <classpathentry kind="output" path="bin"/>
</classpath>I am generating inside Eclipse, can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance for your help!!!
greetings
nyyrikki

Answer 1

nyyrikki wrote:
It seems that it cannot find the ApplicationFrame.class, but it is inside the jar file, inside the jcommon-1.0.16.jar which is included in the generated jar.For standard jars to be execute using
java -jar generted-jar.jar
one cannot include dependent jars in the generated jar. Eclipse has a jar-in-jar extension to allow this so check the Eclipse documentation.