How to build jars from IntelliJ properly?

Question

I have a project that contains a single module, and some dependencies. I\'d like to create a jar, in a separate directory, that contains the compiled module. In addition, I\

Answer 1

If you are using third party libraries with your project or if you have problems with creating MANIFEST.MF file properly, there can be conflicts when running JAR files generated using

File > Project Structure > Artifacts > '+' > JAR > From modules with dependencies > .....

method mentioned above.

Instead I suggest you to create an empty JAR and add all other elements to the output root manually. A wonderful blog article for this method can be found here: http://karthicraghupathi.com/2016/07/10/creating-an-executable-jar-in-intellij-idea/ I tried the steps mentioned there and everything worked fine for me!