The Fat Jar Eclipse Plug-In is a Deployment-Tool which deploys an Eclipse java-project into one executable jar.
It adds the Entry "Build Fat-JAR" to the Export-Wizard.
In addition to the eclipse standard jar-exporter referenced classes and jars are included to the "Fat-Jar", so the resulting jar contains all needed classes and can be executed directly with "java -jar", no classpath has to be set, no additional jars have to be deployed.
How to Run a .Jar Java File. .jar files are used for archiving, archive unpacking. One of the essential features of jar file is lossless data compression. Need to know how to run one? Here's how. Make sure you have Java installed on your...
If you've spent any time doing Java programming with Eclipse it must have occurred to you that support for viewing and editing Jar files is a little limited. Having used Eclipse for over eighteen months, and since I hadn't yet built an Eclipse plugin, I decided to dive right in and build a viewer/editor that would let me stop using File Explorer or WinZip(1) for manipulating the Jar files in my projects. Hopefully forever.
Five days later here it is: JarPlug, the Java ARchive PLUGin for Eclipse (sorry... :). And what days: going up the learning curve of Eclipse plugin internals and trying to figure out a workflow paradigm for editing Jar files that made sense inside the Eclipse IDE. More on that later.