Packaging for a Java Archive (JAR) file

Do you need to provide the data source and methods to a Java application? Create a package that takes the files and creates a .jar file.

Creating a package for a .jar file follows the general packaging procedure. The package may include:

• Class files
• .4rp files
• A MANIFEST file

  If you do not provide a MANIFEST, the .jar tool will add a default META-INF\MANIFEST.MF

When you build the package, a .jar file is created. It is saved to the Distribution directory specified in the Package node. The file name is taken from the package node name. The default distribution directory is $(ProjectDir)/distbin.