Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?

2007-10-03 Thread Siegfried Goeschl
Hi Wim, I use the commercial Install4J ant am ANT script to create installers for Windows, Mac and Linux. Siegfried Goeschl Wim Deblauwe wrote: Hi, I have a question for the people that use maven to create an application (as opposed to a library). How do you provide an easy start point for

How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?

2007-10-02 Thread Wim Deblauwe
Hi, I have a question for the people that use maven to create an application (as opposed to a library). How do you provide an easy start point for your application? Do you use webstart? Do you use the assembly plugin and add .bat and .sh files to it? Do you create an installer (with a maven

Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?

2007-10-02 Thread Manos Batsis
Wim Deblauwe wrote: I have a question for the people that use maven to create an application (as opposed to a library). How do you provide an easy start point for your application? Do you use webstart? Do you use the assembly plugin and add .bat and .sh files to it? Do you create an installer

RE: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?

2007-10-02 Thread John Coleman
it can be extended. John -Original Message- From: Manos Batsis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2007 12:36 To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven? Wim Deblauwe wrote: I have a question for the people that use maven to create

Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?

2007-10-02 Thread Manos Batsis
John Coleman wrote: Funny you should mention this as I was just pondering this yesterday, so many thanks for posting about IZPack. We send WARs to our clients, but it would be nice to be able to edit the config files embedded in the WARs, prior to dropping the WAR into the container. At present

Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?

2007-10-02 Thread Vincent Massol
Hi, I use 2 installers: * IzPack to generate a generic JAR installer * launch4j to wrap the generic JAR installer into an EXE for windows platforms I got the IzPack maven plugin from http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ MOJO-277 which I installed in my custom remo repo. For launch4j I simply

Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?

2007-10-02 Thread Manos Batsis
Thanks for all the info, definitely useful for me as well. Cheers, Manos Vincent Massol wrote: Hi, I use 2 installers: * IzPack to generate a generic JAR installer * launch4j to wrap the generic JAR installer into an EXE for windows platforms I got the IzPack maven plugin from

Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?

2007-10-02 Thread Wim Deblauwe
For launch4j I simply used its Ant task that I called using the AntRun plugin. Good idea, I current use the maven plugin ( http://9stmaryrd.com/tools/launch4j-maven-plugin), but it is not maintained anymore it seems. -- Vigilog - an open source log file viewer:

Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?

2007-10-02 Thread Vincent Massol
On Oct 2, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Wim Deblauwe wrote: For launch4j I simply used its Ant task that I called using the AntRun plugin. Good idea, I current use the maven plugin ( http://9stmaryrd.com/tools/launch4j-maven-plugin), but it is not maintained anymore it seems. Right. I looked at