--- src/games/strategy/engine/framework/GameRunner.java	2004-10-11 23:21:36.000000000 +0200
+++ src/games/strategy/engine/framework/GameRunner.java	2004-12-17 14:03:11.741188160 +0100
@@ -142,9 +142,11 @@
    */
   public static File getRootFolder()
   {
-    //TODO this is a bit hokey, we assume that we are running
-    //from the bin directory.
-      return new File("..");
+	  String rootFolder = System.getProperty("triplea.root");
+	  if (rootFolder != null)
+		  return new File(rootFolder);
+	  else
+		  return new File("..");
   }
 
 
--- src/games/strategy/engine/data/GameParser.java	2004-12-17 15:49:52.083188280 +0100
+++ src/games/strategy/engine/data/GameParser.java	2004-12-17 15:49:58.714180216 +0100
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
     factory.setValidating(true);
 
     //get the dtd location
-    URL url = GameParser.class.getResource("../xml/");
+    URL url = GameParser.class.getResource("/games/strategy/engine/xml/");
     String system = url.toExternalForm();
 
     DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
--- build.xml	2004-12-17 13:18:51.315634320 +0100
+++ build.xml	2004-12-17 13:25:03.583041072 +0100
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 
     <path id="full.path">
         <pathelement path="${junit.jar}"/>
-        <pathelement path="lib\plastic-1.2.0.jar"/>
+               <fileset dir="lib">
+                       <include name="**/*.jar"/>
+               </fileset>
         <pathelement path="${classpath}"/>
         <pathelement path="classes/"/>
     </path>
@@ -58,6 +60,26 @@
     <target name="compileClean" depends="clean,compile" description="Clean then compile"/>
 
 
+       <!-- jar -->
+       <target name="jar" depends="init,compile" description="create a jar file">
+               <jar destfile="triplea.jar">
+                      <fileset dir=".">
+                               <include name="triplea.properties"/>
+                       </fileset>
+                       <fileset dir="classes/">
+                               <include name="**/*.class"/>
+                               <exclude name="**/*Test.class"/>  <!-- dont put Test classes in the main distribution -->
+                               <include name="**/*.dtd"/>
+                               <include name="**/*.gif"/>
+                               <include name="**/*.png"/>
+                               <include name="**/*.txt"/>
+                               <include name="**/*.wav"/>
+                       </fileset>
+
+               </jar>
+       </target>
+
+
     <!-- zip -->
     <target name="zip" depends="init,compile" description="create a zip file for end users">
         <mkdir dir="release" />
--- src/games/strategy/triplea/ui/TerritoryData.java	2004-12-17 16:04:50.570597432 +0100
+++ src/games/strategy/triplea/ui/TerritoryData.java	2004-12-17 16:05:14.404974056 +0100
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
     {
         try
 	{
-	    String prefix = "../image/images/maps/"+mapDir+"/";
+	    String prefix = "/games/strategy/triplea/image/images/maps/"+mapDir+"/";
 
 	    m_place   = PointFileReaderWriter.readOneToMany(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(prefix+PLACEMENT_FILE));
 	    m_polys   = PointFileReaderWriter.readOneToManyPolygons(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(prefix+POLYGON_FILE));