Importing Jar files in another directory within your jar file

Question

I have a Jar file that has the a few packages.

I want to import the commons library and within Eclipse that's pretty simple.

However when I export the jar file, and run it, it is not able to find the commons library and therefore unable to run. I want to know if I have to move the commons jar files to the exact same directory (within the package)? Or if there is something I can add to the import lines to make it work?

I also want to make this jar file able to be sent to people and used by anyone without having to get them to modify anything on their computer

Answer 1

you need to include jars in your classpath if you are running on command line ( Here is an example of this )

if you want it to all be neatly wrapped in one jar consider looking at OneJar . ( oneJar example ) or JarJar.