Run *jar with other jars in classpath...

Hey,
I am writing a little tool in Java and I exported it into a jar file. My tool uses a jar from somebody else. A second jar so to say...!
My Jar's path is: ~/Desktop/project/dist/lib/MyTool.jar
The other jar is located in: ~/Desktop/project/lib/help.jar
I call the java vm from: ~/desktop/project/exe/
with:
java -cp ../lib/help.jar -jar ../dist/lib/MyTool.jar
Now the tool starts running and everything works fine up to the moment when it is supposed to use one of the classes from the help.jar.
Then I get a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError.
What am I doing wrong here?
I tried to copy help.jar into the /exe/ dir. --> Did not work!
I tried to copy all of the file into one folder and start the tool from there. --> didn't work.
It would be great if somebody could point my in the right direction on how to solve my problem.
THX
Martin

Hey,
I am writing a little tool in Java and I exported it
into a jar file. My tool uses a jar from somebody
else. A second jar so to say...!
My Jar's path is:
~/Desktop/project/dist/lib/MyTool.jar
The other jar is located in:
~/Desktop/project/lib/help.jar
I call the java vm from: ~/desktop/project/exe/
with:
java -cp ../lib/help.jar -jar
-jar ../dist/lib/MyTool.jar
Now the tool starts running and everything works fine
up to the moment when it is supposed to use one of the
classes from the help.jar.
Then I get a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError.
What am I doing wrong here?
I tried to copy help.jar into the /exe/ dir. --> Did
not work!
I tried to copy all of the file into one folder and
start the tool from there. --> didn't work.
It would be great if somebody could point my in the
right direction on how to solve my problem.The classpath argument is ignored when you are running a jar using java -jar some.jar. You have to specify the class path from within the Manifest.
Basic JAR tutorial:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/jar/jar.html
Tutorial about the extension mechanism:
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/extensions/spec.html

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