How to use regular expression in java manifest classpath?

Question

I need to make use of additional jars during the execution of the program. I manually add the jars to the relative ./lib folder and then execute the program. How should I define the classpath in the manifest file?

Answer 1

You can't use regular expressions or other wildcards in the Class-Path attribute of your manifest.

There is only one supported wildcard in Java, and that only works on if specified on the commandline on a "manual" java invocation (i.e. not using -jar): using directoryname/*.