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<h2><a name="jar">Jar</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Jars a set of files.</p>
<p>The <i>basedir</i> attribute is the reference directory from where to jar.</p>
<p>Note that file permissions will not be stored in the resulting jarfile.</p>
<p>It is possible to refine the set of files that are being jarred. This can be
done with the <i>includes</i>, <i>includesfile</i>, <i>excludes</i>, <i>excludesfile</i> and <i>defaultexcludes</i>
attributes. With the <i>includes</i> or <i>includesfile</i> attribute you specify the files you want to
have included by using patterns. The <i>exclude</i> or <i>excludesfile</i> attribute is used to specify
the files you want to have excluded. This is also done with patterns. And
finally with the <i>defaultexcludes</i> attribute, you can specify whether you
want to use default exclusions or not. See the section on <a
href="../dirtasks.html#directorybasedtasks">directory based tasks</a>, on how the
inclusion/exclusion of files works, and how to write patterns.</p>
<p>This task forms an implicit <a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a> and
supports all attributes of <code>&lt;fileset&gt;</code>
(<code>dir</code> becomes <code>basedir</code>) as well as the nested
<code>&lt;include&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;exclude&gt;</code> and
<code>&lt;patternset&gt;</code> elements.</p>
<p>You can also use nested file sets for more flexibility, and specify
multiple ones to merge together different trees of files into one JAR.
The extended fileset and groupfileset child elements from the zip task are
also available in the jar task.
See the <a href="zip.html">Zip</a> task for more details and examples.</p>
<p>If the manifest is omitted, a simple one will be supplied by Ant.</p>

<p>The <code>update</code> parameter controls what happens if the JAR
file already exists. When set to <code>yes</code>, the JAR file is
updated with the files specified. When set to <code>no</code> (the
default) the JAR file is overwritten. An example use of this is
provided in the <a href="zip.html">Zip task documentation</a>.  Please
note that ZIP files store file modification times with a granularity
of two seconds.  If a file is less than two seconds newer than the
entry in the archive, Ant will not consider it newer.</p>

<p>(The Jar task is a shortcut for specifying the manifest file of a JAR file.
The same thing can be accomplished by using the <i>fullpath</i>
attribute of a zipfileset in a Zip task. The one difference is that if the
<i>manifest</i> attribute is not specified, the Jar task will
include an empty one for you.)</p>

<p>Manifests are processed by the Jar task according to the
<a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jar/jar.html">Jar file specification.</a>
Note in particular that this may result in manifest lines greater than 72 bytes
being wrapped and continued on the next line.
</p>

<p><b>Please note that the zip format allows multiple files of the same
fully-qualified name to exist within a single archive.  This has been
documented as causing various problems for unsuspecting users.  If you wish
to avoid this behavior you must set the <code>duplicate</code> attribute
to a value other than its default, <code>&quot;add&quot;</code>.</b></p>

<h3>Parameters</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
    <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">destfile</td>
    <td valign="top">the JAR file to create.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">basedir</td>
    <td valign="top">the directory from which to jar the files.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">compress</td>
    <td valign="top">Not only store data but also compress them,
    defaults to true.  Unless you set the <em>keepcompression</em>
    attribute to false, this will apply to the entire archive, not
    only the files you've added while updating.</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">keepcompression</td>
    <td valign="top">For entries coming from existing archives (like
    nested <em>zipfileset</em>s or while updating the archive), keep
    the compression as it has been originally instead of using the
    <em>compress</em> attribute.  Defaults false.  <em>Since Ant
    1.6</em></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">encoding</td>
    <td valign="top">The character encoding to use for filenames
      inside the archive.  Defaults to UTF8. <strong>It is not
      recommended to change this value as the created archive will most
      likely be unreadable for Java otherwise.</strong></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">filesonly</td>
    <td valign="top">Store only file entries, defaults to false</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">includes</td>
    <td valign="top">comma- or space-separated list of patterns of files that must be
      included. All files are included when omitted.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">includesfile</td>
    <td valign="top">the name of a file. Each line of this file is
      taken to be an include pattern</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">excludes</td>
    <td valign="top">comma- or space-separated list of patterns of files that must be
      excluded. No files (except default excludes) are excluded when omitted.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">excludesfile</td>
    <td valign="top">the name of a file. Each line of this file is
      taken to be an exclude pattern</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">defaultexcludes</td>
    <td valign="top">indicates whether default excludes should be used or not
      (&quot;yes&quot;/&quot;no&quot;). Default excludes are used when omitted.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">manifest</td>
    <td valign="top">the manifest file to use.  This can be either the location of a manifest, or the name of a jar added through a fileset.  If its the name of an added jar, the task expects the manifest to be in the jar at META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">filesetmanifest</td>
    <td valign="top">behavior when a Manifest is found in a zipfileset or zipgroupfileset file is found.  Valid values are &quot;skip&quot;, &quot;merge&quot;, and &quot;mergewithoutmain&quot;.  &quot;merge&quot; will merge all of the manifests together, and merge this into any other specified manifests.  &quot;mergewithoutmain&quot; merges everything but the Main section of the manifests.  Default value is &quot;skip&quot;.
    </td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">update</td>
    <td valign="top">indicates whether to update or overwrite
      the destination file if it already exists.  Default is &quot;false&quot;.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">whenempty</td>
    <td valign="top">behavior when no files match.  Valid values are &quot;fail&quot;, &quot;skip&quot;, and &quot;create&quot;.  Default is &quot;skip&quot;.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">duplicate</td>
    <td valign="top">behavior when a duplicate file is found.  Valid values are &quot;add&quot;, &quot;preserve&quot;, and &quot;fail&quot;.  The default value is &quot;add&quot;.  </td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">index</td>
    <td valign="top">whether to create an <A
    HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#JAR%20Index">index
    list</A> to speed up classloading.  This is a JDK 1.3+ specific
    feature.  Unless you specify additional jars with nested <a
    href="#indexjars"><code>indexjars</code></a> elements, only the
    contents of this jar will be included in the index.  Defaults to
    false.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">manifestencoding</td>
    <td valign="top">The encoding used to read the JAR manifest, when a manifest file is specified.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No, defaults to the platform encoding.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">roundup</td>
    <td valign="top">Whether the file modification times will be
    rounded up to the next even number of seconds.<br>
    Zip archives store file modification times with a granularity of
    two seconds, so the times will either be rounded up or down.  If
    you round down, the archive will always seem out-of-date when you
    rerun the task, so the default is to round up.  Rounding up may
    lead to a different type of problems like JSPs inside a web
    archive that seem to be slightly more recent than precompiled
    pages, rendering precompilation useless.<br>
    Defaults to true.  <em>Since Ant 1.6.2</em></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">level</td>
    <td valign="top">Non-default level at which file compression should be
    performed. Valid values range from 0 (no compression/fastest) to 9
    (maximum compression/slowest). <em>Since Ant 1.7</em></td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<h3>Nested elements</h3>
<h4>metainf</h4>
<p>The nested <code>metainf</code> element specifies a <a
href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>. All files included in this fileset will
end up in the <code>META-INF</code> directory of the jar file. If this
fileset includes a file named <code>MANIFEST.MF</code>, the file is
ignored and you will get a warning.</p>

<h4>manifest</h4>
<p>The manifest nested element allows the manifest for the Jar file to
be provided inline in the build file rather than in an external
file. This element is identical to the
<a href="manifest.html">manifest</a> task, but the file and mode
attributes must be omitted.</p>
<p>
If both an inline manifest and an external file are both specified, the
manifests are merged.
</p>

<p>When using inline manifests, the Jar task will check whether the manifest 
contents have changed (i.e. the manifest as specified is different in any way 
from the manifest that exists in the Jar, if it exists. 
If the manifest values have changed the jar will be updated or rebuilt, as
appropriate.
</p>

<a name="indexjars"><h4>indexjars</h4></a>

<p><em>since ant 1.6.2</em></p>

<p>The nested <code>indexjars</code> element specifies a <a
href="../using.html#path">PATH like structure</a>.  Its content is
completely ignored unless you set the index attribute of the task to
true.</p>

<p>The index created by this task will contain indices for the
archives contained in this path, the names used for the archioves
depend on your manifest:</p>
<ul>
  <li>If the generated jar's manifest contains no Class-Path
  attribute, the file name without any leading directory path will be
  used and all parts of the path will get indexed.</li>
  <li>If the manifest contains a Class-Path attribute, this task will
  try to guess which part of the Class-Path belongs to a given
  archive.  If it cannot guess a name, the archive will be skipped,
  otherwise tha name listed inside the Class-PAth attribute will be
  used.</li>
</ul>

<p>This task will not create any index entries for archives that are
empty or only contain files inside the META-INF directory.</p>

<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre>  &lt;jar destfile=&quot;${dist}/lib/app.jar&quot; basedir=&quot;${build}/classes&quot;/&gt;</pre>
<p>jars all files in the <code>${build}/classes</code> directory into a file
called <code>app.jar</code> in the <code>${dist}/lib</code> directory.</p>
<pre>  &lt;jar destfile=&quot;${dist}/lib/app.jar&quot;
       basedir=&quot;${build}/classes&quot;
       excludes=&quot;**/Test.class&quot;
  /&gt;</pre>
<p>jars all files in the <code>${build}/classes</code> directory into a file
called <code>app.jar</code> in the <code>${dist}/lib</code> directory. Files
with the name <code>Test.class</code> are excluded.</p>
<pre>  &lt;jar destfile=&quot;${dist}/lib/app.jar&quot;
       basedir=&quot;${build}/classes&quot;
       includes=&quot;mypackage/test/**&quot;
       excludes=&quot;**/Test.class&quot;
  /&gt;</pre>
<p>jars all files in the <code>${build}/classes</code> directory into a file
called <code>app.jar</code> in the <code>${dist}/lib</code> directory. Only
files under the directory <code>mypackage/test</code> are used, and files with
the name <code>Test.class</code> are excluded.</p>
<pre>  &lt;jar destfile=&quot;${dist}/lib/app.jar&quot;&gt;
    &lt;fileset dir=&quot;${build}/classes&quot;
             excludes=&quot;**/Test.class&quot;
    /&gt;
    &lt;fileset dir=&quot;${src}/resources&quot;/&gt;
  &lt;/jar&gt;</pre>
<p>jars all files in the <code>${build}/classes</code> directory and also
in the <code>${src}/resources</code> directory together into a file
called <code>app.jar</code> in the <code>${dist}/lib</code> directory.
Files with the name <code>Test.class</code> are excluded.
If there are files such as <code>${build}/classes/mypackage/MyClass.class</code>
and <code>${src}/resources/mypackage/image.gif</code>, they will appear
in the same directory in the JAR (and thus be considered in the same package
by Java).</p>

<pre>  &lt;jar destfile=&quot;test.jar&quot; basedir=&quot;.&quot;&gt;
    &lt;include name=&quot;build&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;manifest&gt;
      &lt;attribute name=&quot;Built-By&quot; value=&quot;${user.name}&quot;/&gt;
      &lt;section name=&quot;common/class1.class&quot;&gt;
        &lt;attribute name=&quot;Sealed&quot; value=&quot;false&quot;/&gt;
      &lt;/section&gt;
    &lt;/manifest&gt;
  &lt;/jar&gt;</pre>
<p>
This is an example of an inline manifest specification. Note that the Built-By
attribute will take the value of the Ant property ${user.name}. The manifest
produced by the above would look like this:
</p>
<pre><code>Manifest-Version: 1.0
Built-By: conor
Created-By: Apache Ant 1.5alpha

Name: common/class1.class
Sealed: false</code></pre>

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