Build the src contents into a jar which will then contain class files and our manifest. Jar typically code.jar Then sign the jar with jarsigner -keystore ../cert/key.store -storepass foobar code.jar foo as per: http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/85application/jar/sign.html then you can run it: java -javaagent:XXX -classpath code.jar foo.bar.Foo