How Do I Automatically Generate A .jar File In An Eclipse Java Project

Question

I have an Eclipse Java project. It contains a folder named \"dist\". In that folder is a .jar file.

How can I set things up in this project to make sure th

Answer 1

Thomas's answer works, but the jar file it produces isn't one that you can use to actually run the application.

I ended up with:

Don't know if something has changed in ant since this answer was given, but it took some digging to actually get it working. A lot of the solutions in tutorials were only partial answers...

Main changes:

• Added a delete for the jar file as it wasn't regenerating it when I reran the ant build after changing the build file.
• Added a manifest to set the executable file properly.
• Pull in some .jar files as libs
• Pull in the Message_ files for NLS support

Netbeans makes this so much easier - just check a couple of boxes.

[Edited to fix issue with incorrectly terminated jar tag and pull in the .jar files]