My problem is with a project where I use the POI library. It's from apache and allows you to work with excel,word, ... .
I had to add some jar files to my library and it runs perfect.
The problem is when I put my JAR file somewhere else.
It gives me the errors it can't find the librarys.
Is there a way I can put my librarys into the 1 jar?
I already tried to add my lib folder as source package but that didn't help.
there is a Maven plugin for Eclipse called M2Eclipse, which will read a POM and construct a classpath out of jars it finds in the local repository and any remote repositories you've configured. It behaves largely like Maven does in terms of finding the latest version for a given jar (if you've specified a version range in your POM).
You can also have a look on this
http://fredpuls.com/site/softwaredevelopment/java/deploy/five_strategies_for_managing_j.htm
You want to make a 'shaded' or 'uber' jar, which has all of its dependencies included
There is a maven plugin for building a shaded jar.
https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/
For me the fastest/ easiest solution was to just open my project in eclips and export is a runable JAR then it adds the librarys to the JAR.
NetBeans builds your application into the project's dist folder. There is also a readme file in it, that tells you, you should distribute the contents of that folder...
Edit
Remove the lib folder, that is shown on the second image, from your sources.
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There is a 3rd party jar which is dependent by many programs on the target machine. That jar file is named as abc.jar.
I can add the jar file to the local repository as abc-1.0.jar and package my project. But that means I must manually replace abc-1.0.jar when abc.jar updates. Here are my questions:
1.Is it possible to just use abc.jar when development with Intellij IDEA? I tried add the abc.jar to the External Libraries with dependency adding. But the editor can not recognize classes within abc.jar
2.If the answer is yes, What should I do to let the war file use the system level's abc.jar not the bundled within the ear?
Many thanks
Find this?
correct-way-to-add-external-jars-lib-jar-to-an-intellij-idea-project
or compile files in Gradle
compile files("src/main/resources/libs/sqljdbc4.jar")
put jar file to path
You can add the abc.jar file to the particular module's dependency manually as described in mentioned SO answer and you also will have to manually add it to the artifact which is automatically generated by IDE based on Maven configuration.
Note that the artifact configuration will be overridden on the next re-import from Maven unless you create a copy of this artifact configuration and give it another name.
Generally such approach is not recommended for Maven project. Instead you should relay on Maven configuration.
I created the java class and converted into jar files. So, I want to use those jar files which I have placed in project level in some folder like "External Jar".
So I need to write a dependency in maven that when someone imports my project they should be able to run the program.
Basically you created your own jar and you want to publish this jar, so that when somebody else clone/use your project, this jar comes with (assuming that you have a maven project and dependency of your jar is included in pom.xml).
To achieve this, you need to publish your jar to maven , you can follow many of the online docs like http://kirang89.github.io/blog/2013/01/20/uploading-your-jar-to-maven-central/ on how to publish jar to maven central.
Edit:- As suggested by khmarbaise, please use official reference http://central.sonatype.org/ for central repository.
I created a new Maven project and generated Javadocs through eclipse. It created a lot of html files in the project directory inside a folder called "doc".
Now I want to distribute this project as a dependency to my colleague and he does not have the source of the project I created. He is only adding my project as a dependency. He says he cannot see the javadoc when he hovers on a method that I created in my project.
What am I missing here?
Add the maven-javadoc-plugin to the project (plugins section of your pom.xml), instead of generating the Javadocs through Eclipse. Please have a look at the jar goal. If done correctly, the Maven build will package a javadoc jar beside the normal jar file. The build will result in following jars:
${artifactId}-${version}.jar
${artifactId}-${version}-javadoc.jar
If you want to provide the sources additionally, the maven-source-plugin (goal jar) will do the job for you.
The installation of the jar file, the javadoc file and in case the source file into your colleague's local Maven repository can be done with the maven-install-plugin.
I'm creating an eclipse plug-in and I'm having trouble with external jars. In my plug-in I start an application which requires some external jars. What do I have to do to export them automatically with the rest of the plug-in?
Thanks in advance :)
Open your plugin.xml
Go to Runtime tab and add your JAR in the classpath section
By following the steps below, the external JARs will be included when you export your plug-in:
Copy the required external JAR files into a folder in your plug-in project; I like to call this folder lib, but whatever works for you.
Open the build.properties in your plug-in project and check the JARs you want to include in the build in the Binary Build section on the left.
This is an easy way, though it does create an additional plug-in.
In Eclipse:
Choose New>Other, then Plug-in Development>Plug-in from existing JAR archives.
Choose the jars you want to include.
On the next page, configure the plug-in.
In your plug-in's manifest, add the new plug-in as a dependency.
In your plug-in's Properties, add the new project under Java Build Path on the Projects tab.
Edit: You may be able to combine the jars into your plug-in by instead combining both suggestions of Zsolt and user714965 below.
This is what has worked for me. If they are truly external, and this is a project for your company that is not going to be in the "wild" and you control the environment, and you have them out on the file system say at /opt/java/lib/somedir/some.jar you can tell the bundle where to find them by adding them to the Bundle-ClassPath entry in the MANIFEST.MF under META-INF. The syntax is:
Bundle-ClassPath: .,
external:/opt/java/lib/somedir/some.jar,
external:/opt/java/lib/someotherdir/someother.jar
Also it would be prudent to use these in your build path so that you are working with the same jars in both build and runtime environments.
I have done this where the Jars are multi-purpose (such as apache-commons) on our file systems and again we control the environment.
Reference the following:
http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t51870.html
Copy the required external JAR files into a folder in your plug-in project; I like to call this folder lib, but whatever works for you.
..but as apposed to Zsolt Török (his solution did not work for me) I double-clicked on the plugin.xml, went to the build tab, at the bottom, I clicked Add JARs..., and hey presto, it showed my project, and I then navigated to lib and included the external jar, as per step 1.
The approach from Andy Thomas mostly works, but you also need to export the packages needed by the existing plugin in the new wrapper plugin so that they can be accessed by the plugin at runtime.
I have a maven pom file for an open source project. This pom file has all the info like what other jars it depends on etc. I installed maven. Created a dir samprj and copied the pom file into that dir. Cd into that dir and ran mvn command without any arguments but I got bunch of errors. I am absolutely new to maven so I think I am missing something. I tried also from Eclipse ( Import project -- exisitng maven project) but that also does not work except eclipse creates a project that has just that file pom.xml. I expect something that first it will download the jar for the project and then download all dependent jars and config files but nothing there.
So given a pom file how do I build the project from it?
mvn install should get you going
I have a maven pom file for an open source project. This pom file has all the info like what other jars it depends on etc. I installed maven. Created a dir samprj and copied the pom file into that dir ...
It sounds like you only have the project's POM file. This is not sufficient. You need to checkout the complete source tree for the project. Having done that, change directory to the directory containing the POM file and run mvn install.
Also, don't copy the POM to a different directory. Maven expects to find all of the source files relative to the POM file location.
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Thanks for advice. I was not able to use the command mvn install as it gave errors.
Probably because you hadn't checked out the source.
I don't know how to check the source tree of the project ...
Use a subversion client (the svn command for example), or one of the Eclipse subversion plugins.
If this was a properly documented project, there would be clear instructions on what version control and build tools you needed, how to checkout the source code and how to build it.
... as I thought POM itself should have this information to automatically checkout if the source is not check out.
It doesn't necessarily, though in this particular case it does.
Anyway I was able use Eclipse to build the project without errors.
(Other readers can read #icyrock.com's answer for links to the m2eclipse plugin and documentation.)
The only problem is the dependent jars were downloaded but hidden deep paths in .m2 repository folder on my linux box.
But I would like these dependent jars to be relative to dir where POM file is.
Sorry, but that is not the way Maven works.
The ~/.m2/repository directory is a fundamental part of Maven. It is not a problem. It is a feature. (Don't fight it!)
If you want to open this within Eclipse, you need to install m2eclipse:
http://www.eclipse.org/m2e/
and then import the project as a Maven project as described here:
http://books.sonatype.com/m2eclipse-book/reference/creating-sect-importing-projects.html
Try out their getting started guide. It has a lot of good examples:
http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/