questions about external jars

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Hi,

I am quite new to the interpreted languages, when you add an external jar and you make your project itself a jar will the external jar be embedded? Or do i have to put the external jar in the same place as my jar with a relative path to the external?

I don't know if i am clear, can you help with this please?

ps: i ask this question because i suspect it to be the source of a magic value error, dunno if it can be.

[Tolls]

You have to supply the jar along with your jar.
It doesn't get embedded, and Java can't pull jars that are in jars out anyway.
So your deployment will consist of your jar and all the ones it uses as well.
The MANIFEST in your jar file will provide the relative path to these dependencies.

Normally you'd have something like:

distribution directory -> myjar.jar
                          lib -> all the other jars.

[KevinWorkman]

It depends how you create the Jar. Are you doing this from the command line, from an IDE, what? Keep in mind that you can manually view the contents of a jar: Viewing the Contents of a JAR File (The Java™ Tutorials > Deployment > Packaging Programs in JAR Files)

Edit- What Tolls said. Mostly I'm thinking of eclipse's option to extract a required Jar and repackage it into your own.

[blablabla]

Ok get it ! I was doing it with eclipse export and everything seems to be there, it's nice to know anyway, thanks to you two.