Stephen, Ant is developed by Apache. It is not a Sun Microsystems product like Java. The questions you are asking are beyond this group/forum. You need to run through a few tutorials on Ant.
But, for the record: Does doing a jar use Ant? No. But Ant can be used to create a Jarfile. Does doing a jar zip the class and manifest? Yes. But you need to code the Ant <jar> task in the build.xml to create the manifest. So, what is this build.xml file? Ant is a build tool. Analogous to make for C/C++ or nmake on Windows. Just like make is driven (configured) by a "makefile", Ant is driven by the build.xml file. The file is written in XML, so you'll need to understand XML which is similar in structure to HTML. Where did it come from? You need to create it. I believe NetBeans will create them for you, but they will usually be a skeleton build.xml file and probably won't delve into details like jar and manifest creation. hth, adym --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaprogrammingwithpassion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
