Run the jar tool without arguments to see its usage. You pass it the -M option to create a JAR without a manifest. You won't be able to run the JAR file with java -jar, but you will still be able ...

Java Archive apps. Each installation of the Java Development Kit (JDK) includes a JAR utility (named jar.sh on Unix and jar.exe on Windows) that provides a variety of helpful functions for working ...

Apache Tomcat is a servlet engine that runs Java web applications, which are packaged as web application archive files, or WARs. A WAR file is the one that’s deployed to Tomcat, not a JAR file.But, ...

In this post, I look at use of the jar command to create, view, and manipulate Java archive files. JAR files will be used primarily in this post, but the commands I demonstrate on .jar files work ...

Just add something like:<BR>Class-Path: images<BR>to the MANIFEST.MF and put it back into the jar.<BR>Now when you run it using java -jar myprogram.jar the classpath will contain myprogram.jar and ...

Although JDiff comes with a pre-built JAR, I have been building and using it locally with Java 7 and thought it provided as good as any JAR upon which to try viewing the manifest file.