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Beginner Problem - Manifest file

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From	William Colls <william.colls@rogers.com>
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Subject	Beginner Problem - Manifest file
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Environment:
Ubuntu 10.04.2 64 bit
Java 1.6.0_24
NetbeansIDE 6.8

I have built a small application containing two classes. When I build 
the application in the IDE, it builds without error, and creates a .jar 
file.

When I try to run the .jar using the command

java -jar myapp.jar

I get the error

Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from myapp.jar

One of the class files does contain the main declaration

public static void main(String args)

 From my reading, I understand that there should be a file with the name 
manifest.txt in the build directory that gets incorporated into the .jar 
file, but I don't know what the contents of the file should be. My 
original understanding of how the IDE worked led me to believe that it 
would create the manifest file automatically, but this doesn't seem to 
be happening.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

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Beginner Problem - Manifest file William Colls <william.colls@rogers.com> - 2011-05-30 16:53 -0400
  Re: Beginner Problem - Manifest file Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-05-30 14:20 -0700
  Re: Beginner Problem - Manifest file markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-30 15:30 -0700
    Re: Beginner Problem - Manifest file William Colls <william.colls@rogers.com> - 2011-05-30 21:03 -0400
  Re: Beginner Problem - Manifest file "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-30 19:32 -0400
  Re: Beginner Problem - Manifest file Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-05-31 09:24 +0100

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