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Create Jar file using Ant Build File

Creating JAR files with Ant is quite easy with the jar task. In this tutorial we will show you how to use Ant build script to create a Jar file.

Before discussing more let us see following Ant Build file.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
   <project name="Hello World" default="info" basedir=".">
    <property file="build.properties"/>
   <target name="info">
      <echo>Hello World - Welcome to Apache Ant Tutorial by Tutor ${tutor}!!!</echo>
   </target>
    <target name ="makejar" description="Create a jar for the HelloWorld project">
     <mkdir dir="${build.dir}"/>
     <mkdir dir="${build.dir}/classes"/>
     <jar jarfile="${build.dir}/HelloWorld.jar" basedir="${build.dir}/classes">
      <manifest>
        <attribute name = "Main-Class" value = "com.dineshonjava.HelloWorld"/>
     </manifest>
     </jar>
   </target>
</project>

Create Jar file using Ant Build File

As you saw in the above build file we have added a new target to produce the jar file. But before that, let us see the jar task given below.

<jar jarfile="${build.dir}/HelloWorld.jar" basedir="${build.dir}/classes">
      <manifest>
        <attribute name = "Main-Class" value = "com.dineshonjava.HelloWorld"/>
     </manifest>
     </jar>

Here ${build.dir} property points to the path of the web source files.

The ${build.dir}/classes property in this example points to the build folder where the class files for the HelloWorld.jar can be found.

If we want to make the HelloWorld.jar an executable jar file we need to add the manifest with the Main-Class meta attribute.

Running Ant on this file creates the HelloWorld.jar file for us.

The following outcome is the result of running the Ant file:

The HelloWorld.jar file is now placed in the output folder.

 

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Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!

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