executable-jar

I'm using a library which wants a File() as an argument. The file I want to pass it is one I want to package with my app, as part of the .jar Is there any way to convert the JarEntry that I get from within my .jar to a File object I can pass? If not and I have to copy the resource to disk temporarily, where's the best place to put the temporary file? Thanks. You cannot get a path to a file within a JARFile, only a stream, so you should extract it to the temporary directory and then pass that extracted file. Here's a function I wrote to do this when I provided a db with a jar previously. /** *

I look over a lot of info on the web also look at some of the questions here, but couldn't solve my problem so I post this question. I have fairly simple project using SWING which compiles and run under Eclipse, but when I try to use the standard Export->Java->Runnable Jar leaving the default properties at the end I have a file which when I dobule-click I get this: Could not find the main class: TableFilterDemo. Program will exit . Here is my project structure: And this is the configuration I use for creating the Runnable Jar : And because as far as I understand the error there is some problem

I have an RCP application which includes different plugins. In one of the plugin I am using an external third party jar. Due to copyrights reasons I cannot bundle that jar into my product. So I try to include the jar as external jar at runtime. what I have done is as follows In the Plugin manifest.mf I have Manifest-Version: 1.0 Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2 Bundle-Name: %pluginName Bundle-SymbolicName: EaCom-plugin;singleton:=true Bundle-Version: 2.1.0 Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.core.runtime Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.6 Bundle-ClassPath: ., external:$eaapi_location$/eaapi.jar