Following are few commands that can be used to create/view/modify/execute a JAR file using Java command line utilities and JVM.
Create a JAR file
| 1 2 3 | jar cf JAR_FILE_NAME FILE_NAMES_OR_DIRECTORY_NAMEe.g.jar cf MyApp1.jar C:\JavaProject\MyApp |
View contents of a JAR file
| 1 2 3 | jar tf JAR_FILE_NAMEe.g.jar tf MyApp1.jar |
View contents with detail of a JAR file
| 1 2 3 | jar tvf JAR_FILE_NAMEe.g.jar tvf MyApp1.jar |
Note that we have used v (verbose) option to see the detail of JAR.
Extract content of JAR file
| 1 2 3 | jar xf JAR_FILE_NAMEe.g.jar xf MyApp1.jar |
Extract specific file from JAR file
| 1 2 3 | jar xf JAR_FILE_NAME FILE_NAME(S)_FROM_JAR_FILEe.g.jar xf MyApp1.jar Test1.class |
Update a JAR file
| 1 2 3 | jar uf JAR_FILE_NAME FILE_NAMES_FROM_JAR_FILEe.g.jar uf MyApp1.jar Test1.class |
Executing a JAR file
| 1 2 3 | java -jar JAR_FILE_NAMEe.g.java -jar MyApp.jar |
Create an executable JAR file
In order to create an executable JAR, one of the classes that we include in our JAR must be a main class.
Create a text file called MANIFEST.MF using any text editor and copy following content in it.
| 1 2 | Manifest-Version: 1.0Main-Class: MyMainClass |
Where MyMainClass is the name of the class that contents main method. Also note that you have to specify fully qualified class name here.
Use following command to create an executable JAR file.
| 1 | jar cvfm MyApp.jar MANIFEST.MF FILE_NAMES_OR_DIRECTORY_NAME |
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