一、Setting an Application’s Entry Point
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
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.
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).
We then create a JAR file named MyJar.jar by entering the following command:
jar cfm MyJar.jar Manifest.txt MyPackage/*.class
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
MANIFEST.MF
注意:最后一行必须为空行
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: Test
Test.java
public class Test
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println("Hello world");
}
}
build_jar.bat
javac Test.java
jar cfm test.jar MANIFEST.MF Test.class
del Test.class
java -jar test.jar
del test.jar
二、Setting an Entry Point with the JAR Tool
The ‘e’ flag (for ‘entrypoint’) 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
An Example
HelloWorld.java
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello World");
}
}
build_jar.bat
javac HelloWorld.java
jar cvfe HelloWorld.jar HelloWorld HelloWorld.class
:: jar cvfe HelloWorld.jar HelloWorld *.class
java -jar HelloWorld.jar
::java -cp HelloWorld.jar HelloWorld
::java -jar HelloWorld.jar -classpath HelloWorld
del HelloWorld.class
del HelloWorld.jar