Java using “-cp” and “-jar” together

Question

Folks,

Earlier, I had just one jar file and the manifest was set up such that I can simply run my program as:

 java -jar MyApp.jar

Answer 1

I have a Manifest.mf file like this.

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: com.mycompany.mypackage.App
Class-Path: MyApp.jar MyCore.jar log4j.jar 

You can just add any jar files you need to the Class-Path line. Then as long as the jars are in the class path you can run the java -jar command without -cp.