How to build jars from IntelliJ properly?

Question

I have a project that contains a single module, and some dependencies. I'd like to create a jar, in a separate directory, that contains the compiled module. In addition, I'd like to have the dependencies present beside my module.

No matter how I twist IntelliJ's "build jar" process, the output of my module appears empty (besides a META-INF file).

Answer 1

Check out this to learn how to build a jar with IntelliJ 10 

File -> Project Structure -> Project Settings -> Artifacts -> Click green plus sign -> Jar -> From modules with dependencies...

The foregoing sets the "structure" to where the jar will be stored. To create and save it do the following:

1. Extract to the destination Jar

2. OK

3. Build -> Build Artifact