I have a Java Application in NetBeans 7.1 (let's call it myApp) that depends on a Java Class-Library Project [more than one, actually] where I keep some utility-classes I share among projects.

This Class-Library Project (let's call it myLib) depends on [many] third party libraries (e.g. apache-commons-younameit.jar).

I included myLib as a library, and NetBeans' Ant script pulls myLib.jar in the dist/lib directory of my myApp project; however, the jars upon which myLib depends are not pulled in together with myLib, so my project gets runtime exceptions due to the missing apache-commons-youtnameit.jar.

I would like to have both myLib.jar and apache-commons-younameit.jar automatically pulled into myApp's dist/lib folder, so that I don't have to manually check all of my libraries' dependencies and add them to my main project.

  • Is there an obvious way to accomplish this through NetBeans dialogs that I'm missing?
  • or is it necessary to manually tweak my build.xml? If so, could you kindly post an example? (I'm not that well up on Ant)

What I'd like to avoid is the following:

  1. I need to add a new utility library, picking from my Java Class-Library Projects.
  2. I lookup into that library's libraries what jars are used and write them down.
  3. I go back to my main project and add those 3rd party libraries (only the ones that I haven't included already for direct use from within my main project itself).

Thank you in advance for any help, or for pointing me in the right direction.

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