JAR files within JAR files

[jfryer]

Is this even possible?

I have two jar files, myApp.jar and myLib.jar, is it possible to put myLib.jar inside myApp.jar and still be able to load classes from it that myApp.jar can use?

Current I cannot find out how to do it. The program works if myLib.jar is in the same directory as myApp.jar (ie at the same level), but for CM reasons I would much prefer to store myLib.jar inside myApp.jar (ie beneath myApp.jar), giving me only 1 file to transport around instead of two.

Anyone tried this before? ----------------------------------------
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[godcomplex]

I don't believe this is possible. I don't think you can have jars within jars. However you could unjar both jars and then jar all of the classes back into one jar. I know that can be kind of messy sometimes. I would suggest that if you have the source for both jars and you are compiling them and then creating the jars, compiling all the source with the -d option and assigning a directory that is the same for all the classes, and then just jar up that directory.

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[jfryer]

The idea of unjarring both jar files and then jarring it into one jar file occured to me too, and yeah it is a bit messy at times.

Thanks for the confirmation though on the jar within jar idea. ----------------------------------------
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