On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:50, Stian
Soiland-Reyes<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 13:53, Richard Holland<[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> There's generic solutions such as Launch4j
>> http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/ which wrap Java apps into native
>> binaries for all platforms, including an embedded JRE or the option to
>> prompt and download one at install time.
>
> Yes, it's true that launch4j is for all platforms, but the result is a
> Windows EXE.
>
> It is however Windows users that have the biggest issue of not having
> Java by default.

I tested it, and it was quite easy to get to work:

 http://www.mygrid.org.uk/dev/wiki/display/scrap/2009-06-11+Launch4j+experiment

This even includes an .exe file you could drop into your Taverna 2.1b1
installation to try for yourself. :-)

I say we try to get this into 2.1b2. If we have time we can get the
install wizard (like in 2.0) to also add a link to this .exe file to
the Start menu.. but that's another program to play with. (which I
don't remember the name of!)


-- 
Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester

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