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

To manually force package creation with NetBeans IDE 8.0.2 ...

1. In Project navigator, expand your <project> and right click Project Files / pom.xml
2. Click Run Maven / Goals
3. Type "package" in Goals field
4. Click OK

The output window will then show (on Mac) ...

Building jar: /Users//NetBeansProjects//target/-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar