You can build a native executable from a class file, from a JAR file, or from a module. This guide demonstrates how to build a native executable from a JAR file.

Starting with Eclipse version 3.3, the file "swt.jar" file includes platform-specific executable files that are unpacked automatically when your SWT program is executed. This means that a given ...

The executable runs the extractor program to extract the archived files into a user-specified output directory. You can convert a base zip or jar file into an executable jar file on any Java platform.

Run the jar tool without arguments to see its usage. You pass it the -M option to create a JAR without a manifest. You won't be able to run the JAR file with java -jar, but you will still be able ...