Thread: Hi, new user with .JAR creation problem

Background: Having been in the Java world from 1999-2001, I left it for the PHP world and came back to the Java world in 2013. I'm having to learn and relearn a whole bunch of things.

I'm trying to implement UPS shipping modules into a web app I'm building. My task is to convert this (along with other shipping code) into a JAR file.

Her'es the problem. One of the principal classes (UPS provided code) contains external resources in the form of .WSDL files.

url = new URL("file:src/com/ups/wsdl/RateWS.wsdl");

This URL (class java.net.URL) is fed into a constructor of the class "RateService" which is an extension of javax.xml.ws.Service.

This makes the .JAR file unusable because it coughs up execution errors when it comes across that statement; the .wsdl file being not found.

So. Here's the tricky question: How do I wrap that .wsdl into the JAR in such a manner that the code can 'see' it? Or can I simply turn the .wsdl into a long string somehow and feed it into the Service? (Far as I can tell, the Service requires a URL of some kind, not simply a big string).

I'm banging my head against the wall here, and after fifteen years as a developer I feel like a noob all over again (I'm also a novice at creating .JAR files at all!) and so I am begging y'all for some help here.

Thanks.

Put the file into the jar file and treat it as a resource. The Class class's getResource() method returns a URL to the file.

I use the jar command(comes with the JDK) to build my jar files.

IDEs have settings that will include user selected files in the jar files they create.