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 ...

JAR files and Tomcat. The right place to put a JAR file to make its contents available to a Java web application at runtime is in the WEB-INF\lib directory of the WAR file in which the application is ...

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 ...