Morning Dave, Must admit that I use Netbeans all of the time and I just want to ask a couple of questions to bve clear about what you are asking.
Firstly, can I assume that you now have the IDE set up so that you can build and test your project within Netbeans? Secondly, have you created a project for your application? If the answer to both of these questions is 'yes' and all that you are concerned about now is deploying the application, then take a look in the dist sub-folder of your project folder. There, you will find a file called readme.txt that explains what you need to do to distribute the application. I have pasted into this message the contents of the readme file from a very simple test application; ======================== BUILD OUTPUT DESCRIPTION ======================== When you build an Java application project that has a main class, the IDE automatically copies all of the JAR files on the projects classpath to your projects dist/lib folder. The IDE also adds each of the JAR files to the Class-Path element in the application JAR files manifest file (MANIFEST.MF). To run the project from the command line, go to the dist folder and type the following: java -jar "rowstyle.jar" To distribute this project, zip up the dist folder (including the lib folder) and distribute the ZIP file. Notes: * If two JAR files on the project classpath have the same name, only the first JAR file is copied to the lib folder. * Only JAR files are copied to the lib folder. If the classpath contains other types of files or folders, none of the classpath elements are copied to the lib folder. In such a case, you need to copy the classpath elements to the lib folder manually after the build. * If a library on the projects classpath also has a Class-Path element specified in the manifest,the content of the Class-Path element has to be on the projects runtime path. * To set a main class in a standard Java project, right-click the project node in the Projects window and choose Properties. Then click Run and enter the class name in the Main Class field. Alternatively, you can manually type the class name in the manifest Main-Class element. As Hannes indicated, I think that your problems are centered around the -classpath; it 'tells' the runtime environment where to search for, find and load the necessary resources at runtime (bet you knew that already, sorry). Yours Mark B Dave Coventry-4 wrote: > > Hannes, > > Thanks for taking the time to help. > > I'd already seen the link but I added the jar files to the Run tab. It > was only when I added it to the Compile tab that it worked. > > I have a feeling I'm going to find it difficult to imp[lement on my > Debian Production system. > > Thanks again, > > Dave > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Installing-the-POI-jars-for-Netbeans-tp26765779p26773995.html Sent from the POI - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
