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nathan
nathan

Reputation: 1119

How to customize java options of a independent netbeans application?

i'm developing an application using Netbeans RCP. I have added an option to add a jar to my class path in the project.properties file of my platform:

run.args.extra=-cp:a ./appclient/glassfish/lib/gf-client.jar

The problem i encounter is that is does work when i run it from the Netbeans IDE but not when i try to create a independent application (build for Mac OSX for instance). I hear that the project.properties is no longer taken in account when you run an independent application and of course my appclient directory containing the jars does not exist anymore in the application package (so my jar is not added to class path).

How can i make this -cp option works for my independent Mac OSX application?

EDIT: i was able to create a custom conf file for my independent platform but i can't find a way to add my jar to the class path, i don't know what options to use.

EDIT: i found that i need to you endorsed mechanism to achieve it. So i have added the following command to my app.conf file:

J-Djava.endorsed.dirs=/Users/altanis/appclient/glassfish/lib/gf-client.jar

But when i run the .app (mac application), i get this error:

-J-Djava.endorsed.dirs=/Users/altanis/appclient/glassfish/lib/gf-client.jar: No such file or directory

The path is correct. Do i need to make something special to make the JVM aware of this? I followed this tutorial and somewhere in the comments the author says:

Right, but the package-appclient copies everything for you and you should be able to put it on the classpath using the endorsed mechanism. Unpack the jar created by that and add everything you need from there (the jars) to your application installer. Then you can use the endorsed (-J-Djava.endorsed.dirs=${GFCLIENT_PATH}) mechanism in your app.conf to put it on the application classpath. This way you should be able to deploy it together with your client.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 554

Answers (2)

user1722245
user1722245

Reputation: 2173

I think, that create a new library is the better way.

  1. Create module type library with required jars
  2. In your module add dependency to created module (type wrapped library)

Upvotes: 1

Ilya
Ilya

Reputation: 29673

You must add entry Class-path to you application's MANIFEST.MF For example 

Class-Path: apache-commons-2.1.jar ejb-api-3.0.jar

all this jars should be in the root directory of your application
Your appliction should have next structure 

MyApplication.jar  
/META-INF  
/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF  
/apache-commons-2.1.jar  
/ejb-api-3.0.jar  
/com/package/classes

or you can use jar tool of JDK to create a jar
read more here Oracle doc

Upvotes: 0

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