Merging Multiple Jars in to a Single Jar

Question

my application needs multiple jars to work. Since it is a desktop application i can not hold the user responsible of installing. So in my build script i unzip the jars conte

Answer 1

If your primary target platform is Windows desktop, then you could also consider generating an Windows native exe from the jars of your application

Answer 2

If you want a no fuss way for the end user to kick off a program with multiple jar dependencies you may want to look at Launch4j or Jsmooth (I prefer Launch4j). Both are programs that create executables that wrap jar(s) and the JRE together so that to the end user it appears no different then any other executable.