How to build jars from IntelliJ properly?

java intellij-idea jar build-process
ripper234 picture ripper234 · Jul 4, 2009 · Viewed 653.5k times · Source

I have a project that contains a single module, and some dependencies. I'd like to create a jar, in a separate directory, that contains the compiled module. In addition, I'd like to have the dependencies present beside my module.

No matter how I twist IntelliJ's "build jar" process, the output of my module appears empty (besides a META-INF file).

Answer

simao picture simao · Feb 4, 2011

Here's how to build a jar with IntelliJ 10 http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2010/08/quickly-create-jar-artifact/

File -> Project Structure -> Project Settings -> Artifacts -> Click green plus sign -> Jar -> From modules with dependencies...

The above sets the "skeleton" to where the jar will be saved to. To actually build and save it do the following:

Extract to the target Jar

OK

Build | Build Artifact | Build

Try Extracting the .jar file from

ProjectName | out | artifacts | ProjectName_jar | ProjectName.jar

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