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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>

<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</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.</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.  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>
</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 build
file is more recent that the Jar file when deciding whether to rebuild the
Jar. This will not take into account property file changes which may affect
the resulting Jar.
</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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