Create Single JAR file from a Module

[emmbec]

Hi I created a NetBeans Platform application with lots of modules, it has a very nice GUI and it works perfectly fine, however I have been asked to create some sort of API that I can use inside Matlab to call some functionalities of my NetBeans Platform application from within it, functionalities that are not GUI related. I already know how to call a JAR file from Matlab, however what I don't know is how to create a single JAR file for an specific module.

Let me explain a little more what I want to achieve, I have one module (Module A) that includes like three more modules and some NetBeans platform APIs. What module A does is basically wrapps up all of the other module features into a single class, and I would like to create a single JAR file for Module A, that includes ALL the other modules and NetBeans JARs, so that I can use that single JAR file inside Matlab.

Can I create a single JAR file for a module that includes all of its libraries on that same JAR?

I looked at some post where they said that I could do simething like this:

[emmbec]

Ok I beleive it is not possible then, what I did right now was to create a new Java Project and then included the built JARs that I need from my NetBeans Platform application into that project, this way if I make any change in the Platform application I will just need to build that Platform application and then go to my Java project and recompile with the pre-jar options to get a single JAR file with all of the classes and objects I need. Its a bit messy but this way I can have my API separated from my platform project but include the necessary module classes that I need for my API.

Thanks anyway, hope this helps someone else.

[Oliver Rettig]

Hallo,

I had a simlar problem. And I descided to create normal java SE projects for
the APIs I also want to use in the Matlab environment. Then I create Library-
wrapper modules for them to use them in my netbeans app. This works well.
There is a nice blog from Geertjan which describes how to change the build
scripts etc. to manage that after changes all is up to date: The wrapper
module links to the jar in the se project etc.
I don not remember the link the blog but I think you can find it.

best regards
Oliver

[Fabrizio Giudici]

Oliver Rettig wrote:

[tomwheeler]

I am not Tim, of course, but is this the Ant extension you have in mind?

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2007/02/generate_a_netb.html

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Fabrizio
Giudici<address-removed> wrote:

[Fabrizio Giudici]

Tom Wheeler wrote:

[Eser Rashawn]

Hi
I created a NetBeans Platform application with lots of modules, it has a very nice GUI and it works perfectly fine, however I have been asked to create some sort of API that I can use inside Matlab to call some functionalities of my NetBeans Platform application from within it, functionalities that are not GUI related. I already know how to call a JAR file from Matlab, however what I don't know is how to create a single JAR file for an specific module.Let me explain a little more what I want to achieve, I have one module (Module A) that includes like three more modules and some NetBeans platform APIs. What module A does is basically wrapps up all of the other module features into a single class, and I would like to create a single JAR file for Module A, that includes ALL the other modules and NetBeans JARs, so that I can use that single JAR file inside Matlab.
Can I create a single JAR file for a module that includes all of its libraries on that same JAR?
I looked at some post where they said that I could do simething like this:

Code:
<target name="-pre-jar">

<unjar src="${file.reference.MyObject.jar}" dest="${build.classes.dir}"/>

</target>