How to combine library with my jar?

Question

Ok so i wrote a program that makes use of a 3rd party open source library and i want to package it with my program in a single jar. I\'m using netbeans 6.8 and everything I\

Answer 1

If there are no licencing issues then the most preffered way is to unjar the actual jar and rejar it with your class files in it, to a new jar.

You can simply use the jar cmd itself for this, no big deal!!

Answer 2

To include another jar in your jar, you might find jarjar useful.

Executable jars just have a class defined as 'Main', if I'm not mistaken. This may be useful.