Netbeans and Eclipse

[adrianjohnson]

I've just been testing Java development with Netbeans 5.0, and found it ok speed-wise and so on. One thing it does is when you create a jar file you can run it on other PC's as long as they have a jre - you don't need to add a classpath (I tried it for testing purposes).

Anyone know how that's done, and whether jars created from Eclipse will do the same thing?

Thanks,

Adrian

 

[Diancecht]

I don't understand "add a classpath", but I guess you're talking about the classpath information in the manifest file.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[adrianjohnson]

No, I was talking about the classpath entry in Windows (Control Panel > System).

Have I missed something? It was early morning when I was trying things out.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[Diancecht]

The jar file contains a manifest file. This manifest file may containt a classpath entry that could be the answer of your question.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#Main Attributes

Cheers,
Dian

 

[adrianjohnson]

Ok, will read later.

Thanks Dian.