[RESOLVED] How to package a JSwing app?

[DonCash]

Hey,

I am used to writing Java programs which run on a command line.

I normally make a jar file and run this command in unix:

java -jar myapp.jar

to run the file...

I have wrote a Java Swing app for the first time and am wondering how I package this up for users to be able to run it?

jar files don't seem to do it.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help!

[ComputerJy]

JAR files are executables, users only need the JRE to run them

[DonCash]

Yeah,

So can a Swing application be packaged into a Jar and run in the same way?

I've tried this already but doesn't seem to work.

How else can a Swing app be executed?

[ComputerJy]

So can a Swing application be packaged into a Jar and run in the same way?

Yes, you just need to use the command line correctly.

Example 1: to archive two class files into an archive called classes.jar:
jar cvf classes.jar Foo.class Bar.class
Example 2: use an existing manifest file 'mymanifest' and archive all the
files in the foo/ directory into 'classes.jar':
jar cvfm classes.jar mymanifest -C foo/ .

[DonCash]

Thanks.