Re: Newbie - JAR question

Lee A. Wentzel wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:45:27 +0000, Andrew Thompson wrote:

So are we referring to 'swing.jar', or 'swing-layout-1.0.jar' or
something else entirely? Please do not 'paraphrase' names when posting
questions to groups, or you waste your time, and our bandwidth.

Sorry. Not "swing.jar" but rather "swing-layout-1.0.jar". I am getting the examples from Sun's website. I'm just trying to understand the inner workings. Of a JAR file.

If I look in the "swing-layout-1.0.jar" there are two directories. One which is "META-INF" and the other is named "org". In the "org" directory is the "jdesktop" directory. In it, is "layout", finally in "layout" there are a whole bunch of files.

I have seen JAR files out there that don't require library folders or other things that aren't already included in the initial JAR. That is what I am hoping to figure out how to do. Thank you.

If your layout JAR is in the same directory as your custom JAR, the custom JAR just has to specify the layout JAR in its manifest's Class-Path attribute.

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Lew
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