hi denise,
theres a number of ways to include the relevant jars into your
classpath, its not an eclipse issue per se, as much as it is part and
parcel of any java app which relies on multiple libraries
probably the cleanest method will be to write an ant target which
invokes java.
another would be to write a short shell command which sets up a local
variable to hold a list of jars.
put this into a file called starter.sh: (or whatever)
#!/bin/sh
for i in $1/*.jar; do
export MYPATH=$MYPATH:$i
done
java -cp $MYPATH $2
====cut here===
ensure its executable (chmod 755 starter.sh)
then invoke with 2 parameters:
./starter.sh <path_to_libs_dir> <fully_qualified_java_class>
i've assumed your java libraries (jars) for the project are in one local
directory, which you pass in as the first arg. if not, its a good
practice: makes it easier to keep track of which libs ( and versions of
libs) you are using.
still, probably better to look into ant to manage all this for you.
.. and while its possible to 'merge' the contents of jars into your own
application's jar, you really dont want to be doing that...
regards,
j.dwyer
redata software systems
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 12:20, Denise Howard wrote:
> I hope this is a quick and easy one. I'm running Eclipse 3.0.1 on Mac OS X
> 10.3.5. In Eclipse I can run my plain Java application to my heart's
> content. It happens to use Apache Axis, so all those Axis jars are in the
> build path.
>
> Then I use Eclipse to create a jar file for my application, and from the
> command line I try to run the jar, and right off the bat I get a
> "NoClassDefFoundError" for one of the Axis classes. Spelling out the
> classpath (I copied and pasted from Eclipse's command line inspector so I
> know they're all spelled and punctuated correctly) made no difference.
>
> What am I doing wrong? The Eclipse help system is wonderful but I couldn't
> find quite the solution in it for this. Is there a way to have Eclipse
> "copy" external jars (such as these Axis ones) into my application jar so
> that I can hand it to someone who doesn't have Axis installed and it will
> run for them (similar to the "merge" in Xcode)?
>
> Thanks--
>
> Denise
>
>
>
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