I've been looking for a solution for this for 4 days now with no success,
first doing the normal Gradle build task produced a tiny 7kB jar files which obviously didn't work, then i added the jar configuration for the main class:
jar {
manifest {
attributes 'Main-Class': 'Main'
}
}
It's 2MB now!
Still not good enough, then i found the fatJar/uberJar/shadow tasks, said to be synonymous to the same thing so i tried clean then fatJar tasks on another small RMI app that will run on the server and it worked great, copied it to the main app, it produces and 60MB jar file which looks good but it won't work for some reason,
The app runs perfectly from my IDE (IntelliJIDEA) but the jar produced just does nothing.
So my last option is to consult experts so here we go:
This's the result of the clean task:
6:11:10 PM: Executing external task 'clean'...
:clean
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0.774 secs
6:11:11 PM: External task execution finished 'clean'.
This's the result of the fatJar task:
6:13:13 PM: Executing external task 'fatJar'...
Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
:compileJava
:processResources
:classes
:fatJar
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 24.831 secs
6:13:37 PM: External task execution finished 'fatJar'.
This's my build.gradle file
group 'Yasmeena'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'
apply plugin: 'java'
compileJava.options.encoding = 'UTF-8'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
jar {
manifest {
attributes 'Main-Class': 'Main'
}
}
task fatJar(type: Jar) {
manifest {
attributes 'Implementation-Title': 'Gradle Jar',
'Implementation-Version': version,
'Main-Class': 'Main'
}
baseName = project.name + '-all'
from { configurations.compile.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) } }
with jar
}
allprojects {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}
}
dependencies {
compile 'com.mchange:c3p0:0.9.5.2'
compile 'commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:1.9.3'
// compile 'org.apache.commons:commons-collections3:2.2-SNAPSHOT'
compile 'commons-digester:commons-digester:2.1'
compile 'commons-logging:commons-logging:1.2'
compile 'commons-validator:commons-validator:1.6'
compile 'org.controlsfx:controlsfx:8.40.13'
compile 'com.jfoenix:jfoenix:1.7.0'
compile 'com.mchange:mchange-commons-java:0.2.11'
compile 'com.github.PlusHaze:TrayNotification:-SNAPSHOT'
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-admin:5.3.0'
compile 'org.jetbrains:annotations:15.0'
compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.7.25'
compile group: 'org.postgresql', name: 'postgresql', version: '42.1.4'
compile group: 'com.impossibl.pgjdbc-ng', name: 'pgjdbc-ng', version: '0.6'
compile group: 'org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler', name: 'ecj', version: '4.6.1'
compile group: 'de.jensd', name: 'fontawesomefx', version: '8.9'
compile group: 'commons-collections', name: 'commons-collections', version: '3.2.2'
compile group: 'com.lowagie', name: 'itext', version: '2.1.7'
compile group: 'org.olap4j', name: 'olap4j', version: '1.2.0'
compile fileTree(dir: 'lib', include: 'ReportUtilities.jar')
compile('net.sf.jasperreports:jasperreports:6.4.1') {
exclude group: 'com.itextpdf'
}
runtime 'com.itextpdf:itextpdf:5.5.0'
runtime 'com.itextpdf:itext-pdfa:5.5.0'
testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.12'
}
my Main.java class which holds my main method exists directly in the main -> java directory
This's my settings.gradle file:
rootProject.name = 'Yasmeena'
My main method is a simple method that launches the JavaFX application:
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);
}
UPDATE:
Current state of build.gradle file:
group 'Yasmeena'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'
apply plugin: 'java'
compileJava.options.encoding = 'UTF-8'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
jar {
manifest {
attributes 'Main-Class': 'activities.Main'
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}
}
dependencies {
compile 'com.mchange:c3p0:0.9.5.2'
compile 'commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:1.9.3'
compile 'commons-digester:commons-digester:2.1'
compile 'commons-logging:commons-logging:1.2'
compile 'commons-validator:commons-validator:1.6'
compile 'org.controlsfx:controlsfx:8.40.13'
compile 'com.jfoenix:jfoenix:1.7.0'
compile 'com.mchange:mchange-commons-java:0.2.11'
compile 'com.github.PlusHaze:TrayNotification:-SNAPSHOT'
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-admin:5.3.0'
compile 'org.jetbrains:annotations:15.0'
compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.7.25'
compile group: 'org.postgresql', name: 'postgresql', version: '42.1.4'
compile group: 'com.impossibl.pgjdbc-ng', name: 'pgjdbc-ng', version: '0.6'
compile group: 'org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler', name: 'ecj', version: '4.6.1'
compile group: 'de.jensd', name: 'fontawesomefx', version: '8.9'
compile group: 'commons-collections', name: 'commons-collections', version: '3.2.2'
compile group: 'com.lowagie', name: 'itext', version: '2.1.7'
compile group: 'org.olap4j', name: 'olap4j', version: '1.2.0'
compile fileTree(dir: 'lib', include: 'ReportUtilities.jar')
compile('net.sf.jasperreports:jasperreports:6.4.1') {
exclude group: 'com.itextpdf'
}
runtime 'com.itextpdf:itextpdf:5.5.0'
runtime 'com.itextpdf:itext-pdfa:5.5.0'
testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.12'
}
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'eu.appsatori:gradle-fatjar-plugin:0.3'
}
}
task fatJar(type: Jar) {
manifest {
attributes 'Implementation-Title': 'Gradle Jar',
'Implementation-Version': version,
'Main-Class': 'activities.Main',
'Class-Path': ". ${configurations.compile.collect { it.getName() }.join(' ')}"
}
baseName = project.name + '-all'
from { configurations.compile.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) } }
with jar
}
Current state of project structure
Inside the jar file there's an activities folder which contains a Main.class file
UPDATE:
jar file -> META-INF -> MANIFEST.MF
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Implementation-Title: Gradle Jar
Implementation-Version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
Class-Path: . ReportUtilities.jar c3p0-0.9.5.2.jar commons-beanutils-1
.9.3.jar commons-digester-2.1.jar commons-logging-1.2.jar commons-val
idator-1.6.jar controlsfx-8.40.13.jar jfoenix-1.7.0.jar mchange-commo
ns-java-0.2.11.jar TrayNotification--SNAPSHOT.jar firebase-admin-5.3.
0.jar annotations-15.0.jar slf4j-simple-1.7.25.jar postgresql-42.1.4.
jar pgjdbc-ng-0.6.jar ecj-4.6.1.jar fontawesomefx-8.9.jar commons-col
lections-3.2.2.jar itext-2.1.7.jar olap4j-1.2.0.jar jasperreports-6.4
.1.jar google-api-client-1.22.0.jar google-api-client-gson-1.22.0.jar
google-http-client-1.22.0.jar json-20160810.jar guava-20.0.jar googl
e-cloud-storage-1.2.1.jar slf4j-api-1.7.25.jar netty-all-4.0.32.Final
.jar bcmail-jdk14-138.jar bcprov-jdk14-138.jar xercesImpl-2.11.0.jar
jcommon-1.0.23.jar jfreechart-1.0.19.jar castor-xml-1.3.3.jar jackson
-core-2.1.4.jar jackson-databind-2.1.4.jar jackson-annotations-2.1.4.
jar lucene-core-4.5.1.jar lucene-analyzers-common-4.5.1.jar lucene-qu
eryparser-4.5.1.jar core-3.2.1.jar icu4j-57.1.jar google-oauth-client
-1.22.0.jar google-http-client-jackson2-1.22.0.jar google-http-client
-gson-1.22.0.jar httpclient-4.0.1.jar google-cloud-core-1.2.1.jar goo
gle-cloud-core-http-1.2.1.jar google-api-services-storage-v1-rev100-1
.22.0.jar castor-core-1.3.3.jar commons-lang-2.6.jar javax.inject-1.j
ar stax-1.2.0.jar stax-api-1.0-2.jar lucene-queries-4.5.1.jar lucene-
sandbox-4.5.1.jar guava-jdk5-17.0.jar httpcore-4.0.1.jar commons-code
c-1.3.jar joda-time-2.9.2.jar api-common-1.1.0.jar gax-1.4.1.jar prot
obuf-java-util-3.3.0.jar proto-google-common-protos-0.1.12.jar proto-
google-iam-v1-0.1.12.jar google-auth-library-credentials-0.7.0.jar go
ogle-auth-library-oauth2-http-0.7.0.jar google-http-client-appengine-
1.21.0.jar google-http-client-jackson-1.21.0.jar stax-api-1.0.1.jar j
akarta-regexp-1.4.jar auto-value-1.2.jar threetenbp-1.3.3.jar protobu
f-java-3.3.0.jar jackson-core-asl-1.9.11.jar bctsp-jdk14-1.38.jar bcp
rov-jdk14-1.38.jar bcmail-jdk14-1.38.jar xml-apis-1.4.01.jar jsr305-3
.0.0.jar gson-2.7.jar
Main-Class: activities.Main
