Posted by gouessej on Apr 02, 2012; 12:41pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Need-help-setting-up-and-building-JOGL-project-tp3873346p3877574.html

Putting everything into a single JAR is a bad approach in my humble opinion because:
- you are tempted of deploying the JAR as is whereas any application associated to the jar mime type may open it instead of running it, for example Arch on GNU Linux, WinRAR & WinZIP on Windows, etc...
- if you use it with Java Web Start, each time you have to modify a tiny thing in your fat JAR, Java Web Start will have to download it entirely. If you split your JAR into several smaller ones, Java Web Start will only download the modified JAR(s).