Adding new jar in Netbeans project after building the project - netbeans

I am developing a application in Netbeans7.1. I am facing one problem to add new jar file from the app after building the app.
As i know, when we build the project in Netbeans that will create a "jar" file and "lib" directory (which has all the libraries those are being used in the application) into the "dist" directory.
The problem is, I have to add new jar from my application into /lib/ directory after building the project. So that jar will be used in the application.
How should i do this?

If you have a successful build then it means the jar you wants to add is required at runtime not at compile time otherwise it wouldn't have compiled.
And if above is the case adding jar is straightforward.
Add the jar file to lib folder.
Now open you applications jar with some rar software like winrar.
Goto the META-INF folder open the MANIFEST.MF file and append the class path with lib/new_jar_file.jar.
Bingo..You are done.
Here is a screenshot of MAINIFEST.MF file and red box shows where to add the above mentioned lines.

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Exporting a Project to ZIP zips up the project folder only, and not anything outside of the folder, including dependencies. If you include the GSON.jar file in the project folder, then the JAR file will be included in the .ZIP file. It's a good practice anyway since NetBeans will use a relative classpath and thus if you move the project itself NetBeans won't give you an error message when loading the project.

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I have always developed my java NetBeans projects. When I finish my project, and automatically build "dist" folder where the main jar and a "lib" folder containing all the external jar was created. This is done automatically with the NetBeans IDE
Now I'm trying to do a project with jdeveloper 12c Java Desktop Application and try to deploy my project but I have problems with java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. I meet several questions:
Can you add the same structure as I said before? That is, a file jar and inside a folder "lib" place the jars using How to do it?
I've seen examples that by New File Group adds refencias, but it really adds to the main jar file (as I see in the size of the file) but not saved in a separate folder.
I do not know if you can help me do this in jdeveloper 12c: Generate a jar file and folder lib with references.
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In eclipse, you can export a project as a jar file with the required libraries packaged in the same directory as the jar file in a separate folder. How exactly would I go about doing this in netbeans?
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I copied some files of a working project into a different project on another computer, everything looks ok but an external jar cannot be resolved. I added jar file as I did on my first project. I tried everytihng (clear project, refresh etc...). It is a google app engine project. I added jar file into WEB-INF/lib. The jar is there but as I said project acts like it isn't there. What should I do?
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SOLUTION !:
Hi again, I solved my problem. I first copied jar file into WEB-INF/lib and then I added jar file from Properties/Java Build Path/Add External Jar and problem was fixed.
Solution:
Hi again, I solved my problem. I first copied jar file into WEB-INF/lib and then I added jar file from Properties/Java Build Path/Add External Jar and problem was fixed.

trying to use tess4j for the first time with eclipse(any step by step for trully beginner)

I need a step to step on how to plug tess4j to Eclipse.
I found this online:
creating a lib directory and copied the tess4j.jar and its required jar in;
added the jars to build path
copied the tessdata directory and tessdll.dll file into the project root directory.
Now it just works.
I only know basic Java so I have no idea what creating a lib directory and copy directory file means at all.
Can someone help me to plug this library and make it work for eclipse because I am working in a project that needs ocr.
creating a lib directory and copied the tess4j.jar and its required jar in;
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added the jars to build path
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