How do I import a jar in Eclipse?
You can add a jar in Eclipse by right-clicking on the Project → Build Path → Configure Build Path. Under Libraries tab, click Add Jars or Add External JARs and give the Jar. A quick demo here.
The above solution is obviously a "Quick" one. However, if you are working on a project where you need to commit files to the source control repository, I would recommend adding Jar files to a dedicated library folder within your source control repository and referencing few or all of them as mentioned above.
Adding external Jar is not smart in case you want to change the project location in filesystem.
The best way is to add the jar to build path so your project will compile if exported:
Create a folder called lib in your project folder.
copy to this folder all the jar files you need.
Refresh your project in eclipse.
Select all the jar files, then right click on one of them and select Build Path -> Add to Build Path
Two choices:
1/ From the project:
2/ If you have already other jar imported, from the directory "References Libraries":
Both will lead you to this screen where you can mange your libraries:
Here are the steps:
click File > Import. The Import window opens.
Under Select an import source, click J2EE > App Client JAR file.
Click Next.
In the Application Client file field, enter the location and name of the application client JAR file that you want to import. You can click the Browse button to select the JAR file from the file system.
In the Application Client project field, type a new project name or select an application client project from the drop-down list. If you type a new name in this field, the application client project will be created based on the version of the application client JAR file, and it will use the default location.
In the Target runtime drop-down list, select the application server that you want to target for your development. This selection affects the run time settings by modifying the class path entries for the project.
If you want to add the new module to an enterprise application project, select the Add project to an EAR check box and then select an existing enterprise application project from the list or create a new one by clicking New.
Note: If you type a new enterprise application project name, the enterprise application project will be created in the default location with the lowest compatible J2EE version based on the version of the project being created. If you want to specify a different version or a different location for the enterprise application, you must use the New Enterprise Application Project wizard.
Click Finish to import the application client JAR file.
Just a comment on importing jars into Eclipse (plug-in development) projects:
In case you are developing Eclipse plug-ins, it makes sense to use Eclipse's native bundling mechanism instead of just importing the jar into a plug-in project. Eclipse (or better its underlying OSGi runtime, Equinox) uses so-called bundles which contain some more information than plain jars (e.g., version infos, dependencies to other bundles, exported packages; see the MANIFEST.MF file). Because of this information, OSGi bundles can be dynamically loaded/unloaded and there is automatic dependency resolution available in an OSGi/Eclipse runtime. Hence, using OSGi bundles instead of plain jars (contained inside another OSGi bundle) has some advantages.
(BTW: Eclipse plug-ins are the same thing as OSGi bundles.)
There is a good chance that somebody already bundled a certain (3rd party) library as an OSGi bundle. You might want to take a look at the following bundle repositories:
http://www.springsource.com/repository/app/
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/
http://www.osgi.org/Repository/HomePage
Eclipse -> Preferences -> Java -> Build Path -> User Libraries -> New(Name it) -> Add external Jars
(I recommend dragging your new libraries into the eclipse folder before any of these steps to keep everything together, that way if you reinstall Eclipse or your OS you won't have to rwlink anything except the JDK) Now select the jar files you want. Click OK.
Right click on your project and choose Build Path -> Add Library
FYI just code and then right click and Source->Organize Imports
Jar File in the system path is:
C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\jdbc\lib\ojdbc14.jar
ojdbc14.jar(it's jar file)
To import jar file in your Eclipse IDE, follow the steps given below.
Right-click on your project
Select Build Path
Click on Configure Build Path
Click on Libraries, select Modulepath and select Add External JARs
Select the jar file from the required folder
Click and Apply and Ok
first of all you will go to your project what you are created
and next right click in your mouse and select properties in the bottom
and select build in path in the left corner and add external jar file add click apply .that's it
In eclipse I included a compressed jar file i.e. zip file. Eclipse allowed me to add this zip file as an external jar but when I tried to access the classes in the jar they weren't showing up.
After a lot of trial and error I found that using a zip format doesn't work. When I added a jar file then it worked for me.
Right Click on the Project.
Click on Build Path.
Click On Configure Build Path.
Under Libraries, Click on Add Jar or Add External Jar.
If you are having a trouble on udemy course of chad on springboot for the importing the jar. Then follow these steps.
Right click on the project.
You will see a option of Build Path, click on it.
You will have a option of Configure Build path, click on it.
Go to libraries.
Then go to the place where you have a jar files make them into a new folder and upload on a new place.
Then click on Add External Jars, you will surely be able to upload it which will help on classpathxmlapplicationcontext as well.
Thank you.
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I'm building a Java Swing Application. This project requires a jar file called JCalender. I've added this to Libraries folder and everything works fine on my computer in NetBeans. But when i open the same project in my friends NetBeans, it doesn't recognizes this library. I've to manually select the file placed inside the projects dist/lib folder. How to avoid this? please help!
But when i open the same project in my friends NetBeans, it doesn't
recognizes this library. I've to manually select the file placed
inside the projects dist/lib folder. How to avoid this?
You can't avoid this because it's not a problem actually. To compile and run a project you need to have access to the external libraries involved in the development, so if you open your NetBeans project in a different computer than yours you will definitely need to resolve the reference to the external libraries. There's no way for the IDE to do it automatically as far as I know.
Can't i give the relative path to the lib folder for that specific
library somewhere in project properties?
You could just give it a try. IMHO if the real goal is to share a project with other developers then I'd change the strategy. I'd create a Library (Tools -> Libraries) and tell my mates to create the very same library including the JCalendar JAR files in the library's classpath. I'd include this library in the project properties and finally I'd use a versioning tool like Git or SVN to share the project.
By doing this your mates still need a copy of the JAR file wrapped in a NetBeans Library, but the project properties won't point to a fixed/relative path looking for a JAR file but wil include a reference to a given Library. The Library itself will resolve the dependency to the JAR file. If you take a look to the project.properties file you'll see something like this:
javac.classpath=\
${file.reference.jcalendar-1.4.jar}
But if you as I've suggested then you'll see something like this:
javac.classpath=\
${libs.JCalendar.classpath}
Here libs.JCalendar.classpath will resolve the dependency so your mates can have the actual JAR file located in whatever folder they like and the project should compile just fine.
Another option is using Maven to manage the projects dependencies but honestly I'm not a Maven expert so I can't help you in this path.
You need to do a "clean and build" and your jar will be in the dist folder. It will include the external jars
You can read more about it here
I think your problem is due to you are providing absolute path of jar file.
while choosing jar on write side of filechooser there is option of
Relative path and Absolute path there you should click on Absolute path.
i am new to java , but anyway , i have faced the same problem and found a solution for my project
If you are in Netbeans , its would be very easy for you
Let you project name is ABC and all your dependent jar file is under the
the folder MyResourceCollection
now we need to permanently import all jars under this folder ,
So from Netbeans ,
right click on your project name
go to properties
go to library
in the library page , check the "libraries folder" label
you can find a browse button at the right side of the label
click browse and select the MyResourceCollection folder
a new window will come , just press Next-->Next--->Finish
all is done , now check yourself by moving the folder into different location
I am new to Eclipse and Java, and I know that .jar files I need to add into libs derectory so that compiler could recognize them. How I can add .jars not only in libs folder but also in other folder too. How can I configure Eclipse to do that?
It's easiest if you have the jar files visible in the package explorer to start with, i.e. within your project directory. At that point, you can just right-click on the jar file, go to the "Build path" section of the context menu, then select "Add to build path".
If the jar file is elsewhere and you don't want to move it, you can right-click on the project, and under the "Build path" part of the context menu, select "Add external archives...". Then find the jar file in the file browser, and hit OK.
All of this can also be done from the project properties dialog, in the Java Build Path section.
Right Click project
Select Properties
Select Java Build Path
Under Tab Libraries Click on add jars or add external jar to add the required jars
The Java build path is used while compiling a Java project to discover dependent classes . It is made up of the following items:
Code in the source folders
Jars and classes folder associated with the project
Classes and libraries exported by projects referenced by this
project
Our goal is to feed our classes with the dependent classes present in the jars during compile time. Eclipse provies with number of easy ways to do it .Here you can find a good article about how to add the jars in the projects with screenshorts attached to it http://www.wikihow.com/Add-JARs-to-Project-Build-Paths-in-Eclipse-(Java)
I have 2 Java projects in my Eclipse workspace, as follows:
One is a library of code that automatically creates a .jar file whenever it builds.
The other is an application that uses classes in that library, and references the .jar file created by the library project (by right-clicking the app -> Build Path -> Configure Build Path -> Libraries -> Add JARs...)
However, whenever I modify classes in my library project, although I can see that the library .jar gets updated, the app project doesn't pick up the changes unless I remove the library .jar from the app's referenced libraries and re-add it
Am I fundamentally doing something wrong? Is there perhaps a better way to connect an app to a shared library of code? How can I make sure my app will always refer to the latest library code?
Instead of adding it as a JAR dependency you could add it as a project dependency. Right click your project and go to properties. Click on 'Java Build Path' and select the 'Projects' tab. Click 'Add..." and add your library project.
With the latest Eclipse (I'm sure it also worked the same with the ones before), doing a refresh and Clean on your library project then on your application will update the libraries referenced.
It's been tedious. This is the API I am trying to use. Its resources were set up in a pom.xml which I built using Maven. On built up, it gave me the project socrata-publisher that has
src/main/java the source folder with packages com.socrata.api com.socrata.data, com.socrata.util where each contains only .java
files
JRE System Library and Maven Dependency hierarchies where each contains a number of jar files
Problem is com.socrata.api and the 2 other contains classes which I want to deploy in a project outside socrata-publisher. I tried using import com.socrata.api but it didn't work. Moreover, since its a Java project and not android it doesn't have the is Library option in preferences which could rather give me the solution. Both socrata-publisher and tutorial (where i want to use the resources and which is the android application) lie in the same directory eclipseApps in My Documents.
Here's a little visual queue. Help will be greatly appreciated.
You will need to first of all get the output of the socrata project and all its dependencies.
In command line, going to the project folder of the socrata project, where the pom.xml file is, run MVN INSTALL. You shall see a jar file called socrata-api.jar in $HOME/.m2/repository. If you are using windows and installed MAVEN by default, $HOME should be your user profile folder. Once you see the jar file, add it to your tutorial build path.
I think what you actually want to do is just set up the "socrata-publisher" as a project dependency for your "tutorial" project. That will allow you to reference the built Socrata libraries from the code in your project.
Right click on the project and select "Properties". From within that dialog select "Java Build Path" on the left, then the "Projects" section, and click the "Add" button to add the "socrata-publisher" project.
I think that'll work better than creating a separate jar file that you then include, and then you can also keep the socrata-publisher code up to date using Git.
Probably really simple but I just cannot work out how to use any API's with Java (Using Eclipse).
Where do they go?
For example I want to use a Twitter API and I import it using:
import net.unto.twitter.Api;
I then include the API file in the same dictionary as my class file. (This is what I do in python)
Anyone care to tell me the simple answer?
Typically APIs are packaged in so-called JARs, which stands for Java ARchive. What you should do is:
Download the jar.
Put it in some sort of 'lib' directory in your project structure. Do not put it with your source code.
Add the jar to your classpath. Some IDEs you have to add jar by jar, others you tell the IDE which directories are library directories and it will modify the classpath for you to include all the jars in the directory.
Import the relevant package in your files where you use the API.
Once you have the jar added to your classpath and import the relevant classes, Eclipse should automatically pick it up and allow you to use autocomplete features against the API.
It is also a good idea to get the source jar for any libraries you download. Most IDEs let you attach src jars, so you can click into the API and see how the code is written.
You need to include any external JARs in the build path. In eclipse right click on the project and go to 'Build Path' > 'Configure Build Path' then go to the 'Libraries' tab and 'Add JARs'. Also, when using eclipse it is easier not to maintain the import statements yourself, but instead use 'Organize Imports' (ctrl + shft + o) or Import the selected object (ctrl + shft + m). If a matching object is available in the classpath it will be imported.
Java APIs are distributed in JAR files (which are just zip files with a specifiec directory structure).
Download the jar in question, put it in a known location on your disk (known location as in, pay attention to the name of the direcctory where you store the downloaded jar).
There are two times you will need to reference a Jar file:
During project compilation. This includes development of the project using an IDE like eclipse (they all compile the code to find errors).
Option 1, add an external jar:
Open the project properties in Eclipse
Select Java Build Path
Select the Libraries tab
Click the Add External Jar button
Browse to the location of the JAR in question.
Select the JAR.
Click the Open button.
Option 2, add the JAR to your web project's WEB-INF/lib directory.
During project execution. This will be after you deploy your application to a web container (perhaps tomcat). Store the JAR in question in the classpath of the appliction post deploy. For simple web applications, you can put the jar in the project WEB-INF/lib directory.
You should have it included in the classpath (build path) of the project.