# Creating executable .jar with ignition SDK

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/creating-executable-jar-with-ignition-sdk/111013>\
**Category:** Module Development\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [September 26, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/creating-executable-jar-with-ignition-sdk/111013 "2025-09-26T16:03:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![akivabrookler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@akivabrookler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/akivabrookler)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/creating-executable-jar-with-ignition-sdk/111013/1 "2025-09-26T16:03:53Z")

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Does anyone have recommendations/documentation for going about creating executable files with the ignition sdk (which can be used as a CLI). All the examples (other than kindling) I’ve seen online are only for creating modules.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/creating-executable-jar-with-ignition-sdk/111013/2 "2025-09-26T16:15:10Z")

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No such thing. The SDK is **only** intended for making add-on modules. Other uses are unsupported. Though you might take inspiration from the Kindling open source project, which leverages IA's public API repo to provide an external utility UI.

> [@Kindling - a collection of tools to help with Ignition](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/kindling-a-collection-of-tools-to-help-with-ignition/54689):
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> Happy new year, and all that! I wanted to debut for the community something I've been working on for a little while, and hopefully it's useful to somebody out there. The full story: Long ago I worked as a support rep at IA. While there, I made some tools for internal use; Vision windows attached to an internal gateway that knew how to parse our log IDB files and thread dump files and display them in a more useful way. Recently, I had some downtime, and wanted to take on a new project, so I recr…

Take care not redistribute anything from Ignition that is not released openly. (And you might need to make your own code open source if any of the jars you package are GPL or similarly copy-left libraries.)