How can I include external jar on my Netbeans project

Question

When I run \"clean and build\" the .jar file that is being created only runs if the lib folder is at the same folder of the .jar file.

Answer 1

This is what worked for me:

I built in excel export functionality into my project. The 2 external .jars I used for this purpose was jxl.jar end sx.jar

Unpack these 2 jars into a folder(java classes) using 7-Zip without any META files. Unpack your project jar into the same folder including the META file.

Re-Pack the whole java classes folder using JARMaker to recreate your Project .jar in its original distribution folder ... and there you go ... full excel functionality.