Thread: Running jars from commandline

Hi,
I have a testing application which runs perfectly on the eclipse IDE. It was developed by an excolleagiue, so there is not much documentation.
Now it is said, that the same application could be executed in command line as well.

So, I export the jar, point the Main class and export it to the same directory as the project.


Eg:

Project

------------------SimpleJar.jar(inside directory)

------------------src(inside directory)

------------------bin(inside directory)

|-------------->package1 (inside bin)

|-------------->package2 (inside bin)

|------------->Main.class (inside package2)







The structure is as shown above.

My Main.class is programmed to take arguments.



So now, from the command line, I go to the directory.. I say java-jar SimpleJar.jar info, I expect to give a 2-3 line intodcution.

However i get a response like



Error: Unable to initialize main class testclient.Main

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/junit/runners/model/InitializationError



Another thing I did is, i moved to the bin folder and directly did the java Main.class info. Yet same error.



Please let me know

Hi, Thank you for the reply.

The main class is already in the jar file.
The contents of my manifest file are as below:
--------------------
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: testclient.Main
---------------------

as per the last suggestion in your reply.. I run the command this way after researching a bit
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java -cp MyJar.jar;lib/*; /bin/testclient.Main
----------------------

I believe my command is wrong here. Not understanding the mistake though