Why has it failed to load main-class manifest attribute from a JAR file? Why has it failed to load main-class manifest attribute from a JAR file? java java

Why has it failed to load main-class manifest attribute from a JAR file?


java jar header manifest

I'm not sure I believe your symptoms:

  • If the jre command isn't found, then running jre -cp app.jar should give the same error
  • Just adding a JAR file to the classpath shouldn't give the error you're seeing

I'd expect you to see this error if you run:

java -jar app.jar

The Main-Class header needs to be in the manifest for the JAR file - this is metadata about things like other required libraries. See the Sun documentation for how to create an appropriate manifest. Basically you need to create a text file which includes a line like this:

Main-Class: MainClass

Then run

jar cfm app.jar manifest.txt *.class

java jar header manifest

  1. set the classpath and compile

    javac -classpath "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_updateVersion\tools.jar" yourApp.java

  2. create manifest.txt

    Main-Class: yourApp newline

  3. create yourApp.jar

    jar cvf0m yourApp.jar manifest.txt yourApp.class

  4. run yourApp.jar

    java -jar yourApp.jar

java jar header manifest

You can run with:

java -cp .;app.jar package.MainClass

It works for me if there is no manifest in the JAR file.

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