Thread: the application runs inside Eclipse, but dont run as a jar from cmd

What exception do you get when you try to run the jar? Does your manifest file specify the main class? See the following:
Lesson: Packaging Programs in JAR Files (The Java™ Tutorials > Deployment)

the exception is that the stream I get from getResourceAsStream is null

Is the resource packaged into the jar (you can unpack the jar and look)? Eclipse automatically does this for you...if you are using ant you must make sure all the necessary files are packaged appropriately within the jar (not just the .class files). Eclipse has an export utility to package everything into a runnable jar (right click project, go to export, and select runnable jar), so unless you are using ant for anything other than compilation and creating the jar, this might be an easier approach.

What is the path you pass to getResourceAsStream, and the path to your xsd file within your jar? At this point, it might help to post an SSCCE that demonstrates this issue.

Originally Posted by copeg

What is the path you pass to getResourceAsStream, and the path to your xsd file within your jar? At this point, it might help to post an SSCCE that demonstrates this issue.

DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
		factory.setValidating(true);
		factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
		factory.setAttribute(SCHEMA_LANGUAGE_ATTRIBUTE, XSD_SCHEMA_LANGUAGE);
		factory.setIgnoringComments(true);
		DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
 
		builder.setEntityResolver(new EntityResolver() {
 
			public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId) {
				return new InputSource(xsd);
			}
		});
 
		builder.setErrorHandler(new ErrHandler());
		Document doc = builder.parse(xml);
...

I get InputStream like this

...
this.getClass().getResorceAsStream("/xsd/schema.xsd")

 
.....
<manifest>
 
            <attribute name="Main-class" value="validation.Parser"/>
 
            <attribute name="Class-Path" value="xsd/schema.xsd"/>
 
        </manifest

Path to xsd in my jar is xsd/schema.xsd