Why has it failed to load main-class manifest attribute from a JAR file?

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I’m not sure I believe your symptoms:

  • If the jre command isn’t found, then running jre -cp app.jar should give the same error
  • Just adding a JAR file to the classpath shouldn’t give the error you’re seeing

I’d expect you to see this error if you run:

java -jar app.jar

The Main-Class header needs to be in the manifest for the JAR file – this is metadata about things like other required libraries. See the Sun documentation for how to create an appropriate manifest. Basically you need to create a text file which includes a line like this:

Main-Class: MainClass

Then run

jar cfm app.jar manifest.txt *.class

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