Java Manifest.mf classpath issues

Question

I\'ve been trying to run a jar file - let\'s call it test.jar - that uses the Sybase jconn3.jar on a Unix system.

I have created a MANIFEST.MF file that has the foll

Answer 1

The entries in the class-path are either relative to the JAR in which they are embedded (which you have working) or are URLs. To make your absolute paths work, you'll need to convert them to URLs, e.g.,

file:/opt/sybase13/...

There's no mechanism for using variables.

Although the JAR specification doesn't say it clearly, absolute file: scheme URLs do work in the class-path attribute.