Question

I have a program.jar file which includes some external libraries. Additionally I wan’t to start some classes with the program.jar.

The classes (TestKlass.class,…) are located in <path>/bin/data/test + sometimes there will be new classes added here.

How can I set this location for the classpath so I can use this command in the jar file:

cStart = Class.forName("data.test.TestKlass.class");

This is how my current MANIFEST.MF looks like:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Rsrc-Class-Path: ./ junit-4.10.jar selenium-java-2.20.0.jar WinRegistr
 y-4.4.jar selenium-server.jar
Class-Path: .
Rsrc-Main-Class: data.Testworks
Main-Class: org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader

(Everything works fine within eclipse)

Answer 1

You can’t reference external jars classes in a runnable jar file. Everything must be contained inside the jar.