1073: Highlights

• If you want to distribute a program, then prepare a manifest file by instantiating the following pattern:

  Main-Class: name of application-starting class 
  

  and then prepare a JAR file by instantiating the following pattern:

  jar -cmf name of manifest file name of JAR file *.class 
  

• If your program contains resources, then include those resources in your JAR file by instantiating the following pattern when you create that JAR file:

  jar -cmf manifest file JAR file *.class resource file