simon04 · February 15, 2022 06:14 · Oct 30, 2020 · Oct 7, 2013
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ I struggled with with the jar MANIFEST file built with Gradle containing an empt
 
 
 Wrong (`jar` before `dependencies`):
-```
+```gradle
 jar {
     manifest.attributes(
             // Class-Path won't contain "guava-15.0.jar"
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ dependencies {
 ```
 
 Correct (`jar` after `dependencies`):
-```
+```gradle
 repositories {
     mavenCentral()
 }

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@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+Gradle, Java plugin, Jar MANIFEST, Class-Path is empty
+======================================================
+
+I struggled with with the jar MANIFEST file built with Gradle containing an empty `Class-Path`. I traced down the problem to the order of the `dependencies` and `jar` blocks in the `build.gradle` file:
+
+
+Wrong (`jar` before `dependencies`):
+```
+jar {
+    manifest.attributes(
+            // Class-Path won't contain "guava-15.0.jar"
+            'Class-Path': configurations.runtime.files.collect { it.name }.join(' ')
+    )
+}
+
+repositories {
+    mavenCentral()
+}
+
+dependencies {
+    compile group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version: '15.0'
+}
+```
+
+Correct (`jar` after `dependencies`):
+```
+repositories {
+    mavenCentral()
+}
+
+dependencies {
+    compile group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version: '15.0'
+}
+
+jar {
+    manifest.attributes(
+            // results in "Class-Path: guava-15.0.jar"
+            'Class-Path': configurations.runtime.files.collect { it.name }.join(' ')
+    )
+}
+```