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If you have an application bundled in a JAR file, you need some way to indicate which class within the JAR file is your application's entry point. You provide this information with the

Main-Class header in the manifest, which has the general form:

Main-Class: classname

The value

classname is the name of the class that is your application's entry point.

Recall that the entry point is a class having a method with signature public static void main(String[] args).

After you have set the Main-Class header in the manifest, you then run the JAR file using the following form of the java command:

java -jar JAR-name

The

main method of the class specified in the

Main-Class header is executed.

An Example

We want to execute the

main method in the class

MyClass in the package

MyPackage when we run the JAR file.

We first create a text file named Manifest.txt with the following contents:

Main-Class: MyPackage.MyClass

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Warning: The text file must end with a new line or carriage return. The last line will not be parsed properly if it does not end with a new line or carriage return.

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We then create a JAR file named

MyJar.jar by entering the following command:

jar cfm MyJar.jar Manifest.txt MyPackage/*.class

This creates the JAR file with a manifest with the following contents:

Manifest-Version: 1.0 Created-By: 1.6.0 (Sun Microsystems Inc.) Main-Class: MyPackage.MyClass

When you run the JAR file with the following command, the

main method of

MyClass executes:

java -jar MyJar.jar

Setting an Entry Point with the JAR Tool

The 'e' flag (for 'entrypoint'), introduced in JDK 6, creates or overrides the manifest's Main-Class attribute. It can be used while creating or updating a jar file. Use it to specify the application entry point without editing or creating the manifest file. For example, this command creates app.jar where the Main-Class attribute value in the manifest is set to MyApp:

jar cfe app.jar MyApp MyApp.class

You can directly invoke this application by running the following command:

java -jar app.jar

If the entrypoint class name is in a package it may use a '.' (dot) character as the delimiter. For example, if Main.class is in a package called foo the entry point can be specified in the following ways:

jar cfe Main.jar foo.Main foo/Main.class

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