Unable to launch jar in dist folder

Question

Hello Everyone.
I'm using Netbeans 7.1, javafx 2.02. I have a small application in JavaFX, the software executed fine from Netbeans IDE, however when i tried to launch it by double clicking the jar file directly, i got this "JavaFx launcher Error, exception while running application".
Need advice, probably this topic is more on how to deploy a developed JavaFX application
1. Was it because i'm not suppose to launch the program directly and need some upfront settings before i'm allowed to do so?
2. How to get more detail error on whats went wrong
3. How to effectively deploy my application
Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I'm having same problem. Building and running from the Netbeans works fine but when trying to double click the jar-file in dist folder get JavaFX Launcher Error.
Least in my case, the problem is with external libraries. Problems started when started to play with spring and rmi.
When starting form command line stack trace is following:
Exception in Application constructor
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at com.javafx.main.Main.launchApp(Main.java:453)
        at com.javafx.main.Main.main(Main.java:570)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to construct Application instance:
class org.tut.amcosop.hometerminal.HomeTerminal
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(Unknown So
urce)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.access$000(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/context/Applicati
onContext
        at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Class.getConstructor(Unknown Source)
        ... 4 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.context.Applica
tionContext
        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 java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        ... 8 moreSo seems that springframework is not found.
Found this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6750249/javafx-2-0-application-referencing-external-jars but not really help since corresponding project files did not contain same lines/blocks.
MANIFEST.MF inside jar contains following:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
JavaFX-Version: 2.0
implementation-vendor: summanek
implementation-title: HomeTerminal
implementation-version: 1.0
JavaFX-Application-Class: org.tut.amcosop.hometerminal.HomeTerminal
JavaFX-Class-Path:
JavaFX-Fallback-Class: com.javafx.main.NoJavaFXFallback
Created-By: JavaFX Packager
Main-Class: com/javafx/main/Main
Should JavaFX-Class-Path be empty?