Hi Steve, Just a random side note: if you're using some sort of IDE, they usually offer a built-in wizard to create a runnable Jar file from your projcet (e.g., in Eclipse right-click -> Export -> Runnable Jar file -- the configuration can be saved as an Ant build script to do that from the console or by a double-click onwards). Some of them can even include the dependencies too (e.g., Fatjar plugin). Best, Richard -- Richard O. Legendi Software developer Intelligent Applications and Web Services AITIA International, Inc. http://people.inf.elte.hu/legendi/ On 2013.03.26. 4:12, Steve Kraska wrote: > Thank you everyone for such quick and helpful responses. So I just want to make > sure I understand all of this correctly since it is my first real experience with jar > files. I imagine my process of getting from my project to executable application as > follows: > > 1.) As discussed in the PDF support doc, going into the proper directory in mason > and running the unix command: make jar > > 2a.) Taking the resulting jar file and using Launch4j (since it is open source) to > create an executable. > > 2b.) Making sure to add lib/* to the "Classpath" in the respective tab in the > Launch4j GUI when making the executable. > > Is this right? I'm mostly concerned about step 1 as I don't know if this is the right > way to make a jar to be used in an executable application. If it is, in which folder > do I run make jar? The PDF was not very clear on that. > > Once again, thank you so much, > Steve Kraska