How to setup Main class in manifest file in jar produced by NetBeans project

It looks like you are running into a bug in the way NetBeans 6.8 creates the jar for a Java Library Project.

The issue implies that there is a work-around.

I have not been able to verify that with NB 6.8 and/or NetBeans 6.9-dev...

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I'm going to make a summary of the proposed solutions and the one that helped me!

After reading this bug report: bug in the way NetBeans 6.8 creates the jar for a Java Library Project.

1. Create a manifest.mf file in my project root

2. Edit manifest.mf. Mine looked something like this:

   Manifest-Version: 1.0
   Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.7.1
   Created-By: 16.3-b01 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
   Main-Class: com.example.MainClass
   Class-Path: lib/lib1.jar lib/lib2.jar
   

3. Open file /nbproject/project.properties

4. Add line

   manifest.file=manifest.mf

5. Clean + Build of project

Now the .jar is successfully build.

Thank you very much vkraemer

It is simple.

• Right click on the project
• Go to Properties
• Go to Run in Categories tree
• Set the Main Class in the right side panel.
• Build the project

Thats it. Hope this helps.