NetBeans & Executable JARs

New to NetBeans dev here. When I first created my project and began compiling, I noticed that NetBeans had automatically created a dist/ directory under my project root and was creating an Executable JAR in that directory.

I've now been developing for several weeks, and added many resource files to my project, including a system log file, an embedded SQLite database, and several properties files. These are files that my program (a Swing app) needs to read/write from at runtime in order to function correctly.

I just noticed this morning that the Executable JAR in my dist/ directory is several weeks old, and that compiling my project doesn't update it. I am wondering if that's because there are now all these new resource files and NetBeans doesn't know how/where to package them for the automatically-created Executable JAR.

Does this mean that I'll have to tweak the build.xml myself? Or is there a NetBeans dialog I can get to where I can specify where to pacakge everything? And if NetBeans should be doing this automatically, what could be the reason that it stopped creating the JAR for me, and what can I do to force this functionality again?

I went into Project 开发者_如何学PythonProperties >> Packaging and made sure that the JAR file directory was still dist/MyProgram.jar and that the checkbox Build JAR after compiling was still checked, so obviously something else is either breaking the build or messing with NB.

Thanks for any tips!

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If "Compile on Save" is enabled, then your .jar file will only be generated when you do a "Clean & Build" (Just "Build" is not available when "Compile on Save" is enabled)

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You need to Clean and Build within netbeans to update the file within your /dist directory.

I use Netbeans 7.0 and this solution works for me.