Intellij Project executable not doing anything - java

I have walked through the steps multiple times for creating an executable .jar file for my javaFX intellij project, but it has failed every time. I successfully build the .jar file, but when I click it nothing happens. I go to project structure, create artifact, add the main class, then build that artifact. Still nothing. I have included the picture of the file, but am unsure as to what to even show that would be causing this error. Any thoughts?
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The error i'm getting when running java -jar TestingProto.jar is:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: JVMCFRE003 bad major version; class=sample/Maine, offset=6
i'm assuming there is an issue with versioning in my main class, but I don't use any third party jars, etc.

For the moment, it is impossible to see what is wrong with your code. The folder structure looks like a mess. If a jar doesn't run then it has no entry point, which is the main() method in the Main class. If you have the main() method, then take a look at your package declarations above imports - they should be consistent with your folder structure below the src/main/java (in your case it is package sample;). I would recommend you to create a new JavaFX Maven project in your IDE, then in the same folder level as a Main class, create all your classes, including the Transform class (it shouldn't be outside the structure as it is now). Maven is a great tool and since you install it and set your environment variables, you will need to open a terminal/command line in the root folder of your new maven project and type mvn package and you will find your working .jar (or .war, if stated so in pom.xml) in a target folder (it will appear). But be sure you use the maven standard folder structure and that the package name in every class is the same as the folder structure, where this class actually resides, right after the src/main/java/ path.

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Package folder not compiling?

So I am working on a project in intelliJ idea (community edition), and I have two source folders: engine and scripts. I also have a test folder, called Test. I was having trouble earlier when I tried to refactor some parts of this hierarchy earlier, and when I went to run it I got this error message:
Error: Could not find or load main class engine.base.Launcher
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: engine.base.Launcher
I think I know why it wasn't able to find the main class. When I went into the out/production folder to look, the scripts folder was the only folder that had been compiled. Does anybody know what is happening here, and how I can fix it?
Make sure you have properly configured sources directories. I.e. the parent of the scripts folder must be marked as a source root. Then when you run the Application run configuration, make sure the module where your main class is located is correctly specified.
Also make sure the project is properly built (you can run Build | Rebuild Project action to make sure all the sources are up to date compiled).

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException when running in IntelliJ IDEA

I creating a program to work with databases and I am getting the following error when compiling in IntelliJ IDEA. Does anyone why this is happening and how I could solve it?
The error that you get occurs not on complilation, but when you try to run your application. It happens because Java was not able to find Table.class file inside db subdirectory of the project output directory (classpath).
It can happen for multiple reasons:
wrong main class selected in the run/debug configuration
Table.java is excluded from compilation (by accident or intentionally because it contained errors and you wanted to skip it while working on other code)
class not compiled because Build step is excluded from from Before launch steps in the Run/Debug configuration
project is misconfigured and there is no Source root defined for the directory containing db subdirectory
Table.java has incorrect package statement or is located/moved to a different package
project path contains a colon : on Mac/Linux or semicolon ; on Windows, it's used to separate the classpath and will render the classpath invalid. See this thread for details. Note that Finder on Mac may display colons in the path as slashes.
the jar may not execute if one of the dependent jars is digitally signed since the new artifact will include the partial signature of the dependency. See this answer for more details.
In project structure make sure you have the right Java version for compile.
there is a known bug that sometimes a Java project created from the Command Line template doesn't work because .idea/modules.xml file references invalid module file named untitled104.iml. Fix the module name manually or create a project from scratch and don't use a template.
on Windows "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" Region Setting is enabled. See IDEA-247837 for more details and workarounds.
When IntelliJ IDEA is configured to store module dependencies in Eclipse format source root configuration is lost due to a known bug. Configure the module to use IntelliJ IDEA format dependencies as a workaround.
In a properly configured project and with the correct run/debug configuration everything works just fine:
the jar may not execute if one of the dependent jars is digitally signed since the new artifact will include the partial signature of the dependency. See this answer for more details.
I must again emphasis the point CrazyCoder has here.
The (Oracle) JVM used to throw a SecurityException when you tried to run a Jar-File containing broken signatures. This made sense from a "What's wrong"-Point of view.
That is no longer the case. They are indeed throwing ClassNotFoundExceptions now - even if the class is right there in the file (no matter if it is in the default package/toplevel or way down in a nested package structure).
Here's what worked for me:
I deleted .ide folder, .iml file. And all other auto generated files by intelliJ then restarted my ide and I was asked if I want to make my project run with maven that's it.
Obviously I said yes :)
This is a known bug in the IntelliJ idea.
To fix this I just deleted the .iml and the .idea and restart the IDE.
It works for most of the cases
Edit: The files will be in the project directories.
In my case the default console app template works only if the project folder path does not contain underscore (_) in it. Underscore brings the error
Error: Could not find or load main class com.company.Main
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.company.Main
IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3.1 (Ultimate Edition)
Build #IU-213.6461.79, built on December 28, 2021
If you've tried everything else that others have suggested (deleting .idea folder, rebuild, etc) there's another place to check, especially if you've built an artifact jar. When you first build an artifact jar, IntelliJ adds a folder: META-INF to src directory. in it is a single file: MANIFEST.MF which has info pointing to the Main-Class for Java to find. If you've refactored your project package, unfortunately IntelliJ does not update this file with the new changes. My MANIFEST.MF has the following correct content:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: org.umoja4life.fatashibackend.MainKt
Where "org.umoja4life.fatashibackend" is the package name, and "MainKt" is IntelliJ's constructed name for a (pseudo) "Main Class" because fun main() has been defined in file "main.kt" in the package directory.
Newbies: btw, This will be confusing for you because there should be no actual "class Main {}" definition despite the error message stating there should be.
Before I discovered this file and after trying everyone else's suggestions, I found it quickest to just have IntelliJ start a project (with correct package name!), initialize it with a trivial main.kt having:
fun main() { println("hello world!") }
run and test that; then, I added back in all my other files, rebuilt, ran, and tested it. Apparently IntelliJ has some secret state information stored somewhere which doesn't get correctly updated if your refactor your package name for an already running project and jar.

How to build imported project on Eclipse?

I just imported source folders and required libraries from another PC on which I had been working. The project contains JAVA and Python code in separate packages. Now there seems to be some problem with running the Java parts.
Error: Could not find or load main class Drivers.DependencyFinder
I have tried Cleaning and Building the project. It didn't create any classes in the bin folder. When I copied class files from the older PC, it gives some version error.
I'd like to make a fresh build, removing all the things I had earlier other than the source code. Clicking Build All or Build doesn't produce anything. What's going wrong?
Go to the project properties and check Source tab under Java Build Path. Make sure the proper folders are included in the build path.

adding class files to java package in eclipse

I have three .class files that I'm supposed to black-box test. They are under a package named one.two.three. I'm having difficulty accessing them. I started a new java project in eclipse and created a package with the same name. I then proceeded to add the three .class files to bin/one/two/three. If I try using the classes Eclipse can't find them and I get compiler errors. I'm using the appropriate package header. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.
assuming bin/ is your output folder in the Eclipse project settings. Simply dropping the class files under bin/one/two/three will not work as eclipse will either delete them (on clean build) or just ignore these extra artifacts. Do as #Ray Tayek says- keep them in a different directory and edit project classpath and add this as class folder. This should work.

Main class not found, IntelliJ building a jar

I am running into problems when I try to run the jar file created in IntelliJ.
I followed the steps laid out here: How to build jars from IntelliJ properly? and searched far and wide for other people with the same problem using IntelliJ, and found no solution.
In the menu Project Structure>Artifacts section I have the package and main class name, and I have also tried specifying the 'Class path' bit using a relative and absolute path both to the source file and the .class file (which seems hidden in the IntelliJ Project display tree..), but even with all this (I also make sure to rebuild the jar every time I change something) I get the "Cannot find the main class. Program will exit." message when I try to run the jar.
In the main project folder, there is src and out.
out contains 'production' with the package tree and the class files
out also contains 'artifacts' with the jar folder and jar executable
src contains a folder of images, the META-INF and the package tree.
the first folder in the package contains the main class, so src/ravelDemo/RavelDemoMain.java
in Project Settings>Artifacts, the main class is listed as ravelDemo.RavelDemoMain
currently, the class path is out\production\RavelSequence v1.03\ravelDemo\ but this and every other class path I've specified (or left blank) doesn't seem to point to the right place. (RavelSequence v1.03 is the name of the project).
What am I doing wrong?
Basing on the discussion is the comments above it appears that IntelliJ IDEA is building the valid executable jar with the main class correctly specified in the Manifest, this jar works fine when executed with java -jar ... command from the command line using the project target JDK version on the user's machine.
The problem is that it doesn't work on double click on #sideways8 system. It may be caused by the corrupted default Java installation or wrong .jar file type association in Windows registry. This is machine specific issue as I have no problem running the shared project jar on my system by double clicking on it.
To fix this problem you can try to uninstall all the Java versions present on this machine from the Control Panel | Programs and Features, then install new JDK from scratch so that it's the only JDK on the system and .jar file type is handled by it.
I use Total Commander which has a nice feature to check/edit file associations (File | Associate With...), here is how the .jar association is displayed when I press Edit type...:
I had the same problem. Either the jar file was created with IntelliJ IDEA or other IDE. I found out the problem in my case that I had two version of java installed on my computer (java 6 & java 8).
It's a problem of misconfiguration of the system. so remove any version of java you have and install it again and the problem is solved.

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