Creating Jar with Intellij 2016 - No main manifest attribute

Question

I am getting no main manifest attribute while running the jar create by Intellij. I extracted the jar and observed that there was another manifest file, not the one I had specified while creating artifact.

When I open manifest in IDE, it displays everything right but after creating jar I get a whole new manifest file.

Manifest-Version: 1.0 Main-Class: YoutubeList 

I tried every solution from other answers and still not getting it right. Why creating a simple jar is hell of a task in Intellij, it was supposed to help developers!

Edited

And sometimes it does not include .class files in Jar which results in could not found or load class

Answer 1

I was stucked with the same problem with maven build. When you are creating the artifact from project structure settings (ctrl+alt+shift+S), you have to change manifest directory:

<project folder>\src\main\java  

change java to resources

<project folder>\src\main\resources 

I have also used the option extract to the target JAR, and it's working well.

EDIT

You can find a detailed step-by-step, an other solutions here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45303637/2640826

Answer 2

I spent a few days to resolve it. My solution: I loaded a project that present in this answer. Then I compared and corrected settings of the loaded project and my own project. I compared/corrected:

• Run/Debug Configurations
• MANIFEST.MF
• in Progect Structure settings: Project, Modules (mark what is sources, resources and etc), Artifacts.

In the end, I placed META-INF in resources directory.

Maybe i did excess actions, but it worked for me :)

P.S. also need to choose "Inherit project compile output path" in Progect Structure settings -> Modules -> Path