Reputation: 64803
I have written a java program that is actually works as a gui to an existing command line program.
so in basic all my program does is Runtime.getRuntime().exec("myprogram parameter");
. So I have exported my java source as a executable-jar file by using Eclipse IDE and it is working nice, however I indeed need to include this myprogram.exe to the directory of the generated jar file inorder to work.
Now I am looking for a way to include myprogram.exe inside the jar file so I can keep it bundled as a single file, a method using using Eclipse would be preferred.
Upvotes: 3
Views: 8197
Reputation: 272297
You can simply jar it up as an extra resource (like a .css
, .properties
etc.).
When your Java program runs, extract the .exe
using Class.getResourceAsStream()
and write it to a temporary directory in order to run it from there (since you can't run it directly from the .jar
file).
Upvotes: 9