Setting classpath to execute jar file.

Question

I have dependency jar files to execute my jar file.
set classpath=./lib/tpc.jar;./lib/jxl.jar;
      ./lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar;./lib/logSys.jar;
java -jar ./lib/tpc.jar %1java -jar seems not taking classpath environment variables and showing error as
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
com/sys/logger/LogManager
        at utility.tpc.generate.Tpc.generate(Unknown Source)
        at utility.tpc.generate.Tpc.main(Unknown Source)The below one works, but I dont want to give all jar files along with java command and to make complicate.
java -cp "./lib/tpc.jar;./lib/jxl.jar;./lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar;./lib/logSys.jar;"
         utility.tpc.generate.Tpc %1Is there a way to make first one to work ? Will adding "Class-Path:jxl.jar,log4j-1.2.15.jar,logSys.jar" in my manifest file make it work ?

Answer 1

baskark wrote:
I have dependency jar files to execute my jar file.
set classpath=./lib/tpc.jar;./lib/jxl.jar;
./lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar;./lib/logSys.jar;
java -jar ./lib/tpc.jar %1java -jar seems not taking classpath environment variables and showing error as
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
com/sys/logger/LogManager
at utility.tpc.generate.Tpc.generate(Unknown Source)
at utility.tpc.generate.Tpc.main(Unknown Source)The below one works, but I dont want to give all jar files along with java command and to make complicate.
java -cp "./lib/tpc.jar;./lib/jxl.jar;./lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar;./lib/logSys.jar;"
utility.tpc.generate.Tpc %1Is there a way to make first one to work ? Will adding "Class-Path:jxl.jar,log4j-1.2.15.jar,logSys.jar" in my manifest file make it work ?The jar command is specified to work as you have shown. That is, when you use "java -jar..." the system or command line classpath is ignored. The only classpath that can be used with "java -jar..." is the Class-Path in the manifest. You need to separate the different paths using space characters, not ; or : and the paths need to be relative to the jar file. (I am not sure if "./" will work and it is not needed to specify relative to the jar file.)
Edited by: atmguy on Dec 14, 2009 8:42 AM