1 今天彻底测试了jar程序    
TestJar.java    
package net.java2000.test.jar;

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class TestJar {
     private String message;
     public String getMessage() {
         return message;
    }
     public void setMessage(String message) {
         this.message = message;
    }
     /**
     * @param args
     */

     public static void main(String[] args) {
        BeanFactory beanFactory = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext( new String[] { "applicationContext.xml" });
        TestJar obj = (TestJar) beanFactory.getBean( "TestJar");
        System.out.println(obj.getMessage());
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "Jar内容", "Jar标题", JOptionPane.OK_OPTION);
    }
}

applicationContext.xml    
<?xml version= "1.0" encoding= "UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns= "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans <A href="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd" target=_blank>[url]http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd</A>[/url]
                        <A href="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" target=_blank>[url]http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop</A>[/url] <A href="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd" target=_blank>[url]http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd</A>[/url]
                        <A href="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" target=_blank>[url]http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx</A>[/url] <A href="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.0.xsd" target=_blank>[url]http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.0.xsd</A>[/url]">
    <bean id="TestJar" class="net.java2000.test.jar.TestJar">
        <property name="message">
            <value>Hello World</value>
        </property>
    </bean>
</beans>

2 发现了这个常见的异常    
E:\test>java -cp . -jar MyProject.jar    
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/beans/factory/BeanFactory
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory
                at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
                at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
                at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
                at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
                at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
                at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
                at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)

3 经查找,发现正确的MANIFEST.MF如下    
    
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: net.java2000.test.jar.TestJar
Class-Path: spring.jar    
lib/commons-logging-1.1.jar

这里特别说明一下    
1)在 Class-Path: 后面有一个空格,切记    
2)在 Class-Path: 后面写上你的jar 用空格分开    
3)如果需要换行,切记在上一行末尾一定要有一个空格,下一行的开头一定要有一个空格    
4)最后一行要是一个空行,否则Eclipse打包时有可能把你的Class-Path 给忽略掉    

4 运行效果如下:    


5 结论    
1)    使用 java -cp 来设置 classpath 对于 jar来说是无效的,因为根据jar的安全规定,其内部的Class-Path 会起作用,外部的会被屏蔽掉(注意是屏蔽掉,不是覆盖掉)    
2) Java自身提供了一个设置classpath的方案,那就是使用命令行参数    

-Xbootclasspath:            完全取代基本核心的Java class 搜索路径.    
                                                                        不常用,否则要重新写所有Java 核心class    
-Xbootclasspath/a: 后缀在核心class搜索路径后面.常用!!    
-Xbootclasspath/p: 前缀在核心class搜索路径前面.不常用,避免    
                                                                        引起不必要的冲突.    

语法如下:    
(分隔符与classpath参数类似,unix使用:号,windows使用;)    
java -Xbootclasspath/a:spring.jar;lib/commons-logging-1.1.jar -jar MyProject.jar    

3)当然,你把jar放到 {Java_home}\jre\lib\ext 这个目录下面也是可以的,应为JVM肯定会搜索这个目录。