It gives me a feeling like I am interacting more with my computer than usual. I feel like those so called geek hackers in Action movies as I don’t see anything visually until I clean, compile and run my jar files lol. I know I am exaggerating stuffs here, but, its’ sometimes good to enjoy the little things in life you know J
Coming to the point, In order to create a file entirely through command prompt, one can possibly follow the forth coming steps to do it.
1. Get to your project folder. In my case it was through
>>cd “projectFolderPath”
2. Create your class file. I created one to print a statement as follows
package com.self.jarTest;
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello World");
}
}
3. Create a build directory
>>md build\classes
4. Psst. I don’t have admin rights on this stupid machine and so I can’t change my environment variables. So I did the following
>>"C:\program files\Java\jdk1.7.0_55\bin\javac.exe” –sourcepath src –d build\classes src\com\self\jarTest\HelloWorld.java
In your case, if your environment variables are set properly I assume it must be something similar to
>>javac –sourcepath src –d build\classes (path to your HelloWorld.java file)
5. Now create a folder to put your jar file
>>md build\jar
6. And finally create your jar file (* following line does include a ‘dot’ – ‘.’ – don’t omit it)
>>jar cfm build\jar\HelloWorld.jar mf –C build\classes .
@*%%*, My class path is not set properly and I can do nothing about it L So I did the following
>>"C:\program files\Java\jdk1.7.0_55\bin\jar.exe" cfm build\jar\HelloWorld.jar mf –C build\classes .
Vola, my jar file is created. Now to do the most meaning full stuff, I am speaking about the “Check if its working or not” theorem. I used the following line of command
>>java -jar "build\jar\HelloWorld.jar"
Wohooo…. It worked like charm. I got the following
>>Hello World
I know it seems like, I am getting exited for nothing. Who gives a damn J
