Re: Java executables

From:

"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:38:17 -0500

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"Daniel Dyer" <"You don't need it"> wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:35:07 -0000, Mary Walker <mary@walker.com> wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for your responses. The problem is solved now as another poster
(Andy) has given me the following link to a program which creates exe
java
launchers for windows - useful as you cannot deploy a jar file with it's
own
icon. This works great for me: http://www.xenoage.com/jestart/ and has
answered my questions fully. Thus the exe launcher will be deployed with
the jar archive and the install script will place a shortcut of the exe
launcher on the person's desktop.

You could achieve the same by creating a Windows shortcut file that
launches the executable JAR file. You can change the icon for a shortcut
very easily.

It sounds like the OP wants to deploy the executable, though. With a
shortcut, I think you have to hardcode a specific path, whereas with the
executable that does the equivalent of exec("java -jar whatever.jar"), the
program should work regardless of where the JVM is installed, as long as the
path is set up correctly.

- Oliver