absolute versus relative path names in jar manifest

Question

I want to reference a jar file in fixed location for use by multiple executable jars rather than include that jar in each of the executables. I have the following setup whic

Answer 1

Class-Path attribute is interpreted as a list of URLs, so, to use an absolute path (represented with a URL here), it should start with schema and use forward slashes.

Try the following:

Class-Path: file:///C:/Users/Admin/workspace/TestGradle/commons-math3-3.6.1.jar