Producing executable jar in NetBeans

Question

I\'m using NetBeans 6.5 and for some reason it won\'t produce executable jar \"out of the box\".

I set my project to be the main project, defined main class in the p

Answer 1

Another approach entirely is to develop, run unit tests, etc. in NetBeans but then use a maven or ant script to do your "real" build. It seems like these kinds of build tools give you more control over how things are built, and it also lets you automate builds.

For maven, you can add entries to the manifest easily using the maven jar plugin:

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jar-plugin/