JavaExe

JavaExe
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JavaExe makes it possible to launch your Java application starting from an .exe as if it were about a Windows application, a system service, or a Control Panel.

With this new version, you can now :

to define your Java application running as control panel of Windows.
to put the application in icon of the taskbar, with its own menu.
to define a Windows service with an interactive part (with an icon in the taskbar).
to receive the systems events of Windows, and to be able to manage them in the Java application.
to launch only one instance of the application at the same time.
to have a Screen Splash of starting.
to use any format of icon for the .exe

It is quite simply enough to copy JavaExe.exe (and JavaExe.cpl for a Control Panel) in your directory containing the Java application, then to give him the same name as your .class or .jar principal. JavaExe.exe is provided with a console version, JavaExe_console.exe, to allow have a console DOS to print on standard output. All that will be said on JavaExe.exe apply to JavaExe_console.exe.

The .class or .jar must be in the same directory as the .EXE or in a directory named by default "resource" has to create on the same level as the .EXE

JavaExe isn’t an independent executable of a JDK or of a JRE, it is necessary to have installed at least a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). If JavaExe doesn’t detect a JDK or JRE, it will open an Internet browser to the Sun’s website to download the current JRE.

You can provide a JRE with your application. In this case, you must put it in a directory named "jre", itself in the directory of the EXE or the directory "resource".

It’s possible to specify which minimum version of Java you wish to use to launch your application. For that you must create a file, JavaExe.properties, bearing the same name as the main .class or .jar (as for the renaming of JavaExe.exe).

This file contains 12 properties used by JavaExe :

JRE version (or JREversion) = to specify the minimum version of java: 1.4 ; 1.3 ; ...
Run Type (or RunType) = to specify how the application must be launched : '2' for a ControlPanel, '1' for a service-application, or ' 0' (or nothing) for a normal application.
Main Class (or MainClass) = to indicate the complete name of your main .class if it's in a package : myPackage.MyClass (only if there is no Manifest file in the .jar).
Main Args (or MainArgs) = these values will have passed in arguments to the main method of your main class, in the variable (String[] args).
Resource Directory (or ResourceDirectory) = to specify the resource directory containing the DLL, the image, the properties files,…. If this parameter isn’t specify, the directory named « resource » will be use by default.
Class Directory (or ClassDirectory) = to specify the directories (separated by ‘;’) to recursively scan to find all .jar or .zip files to add in the ClassPath.
Personal Classpath (or PersonalClasspath) = if your application needs additional .jar or .class files or being in other directories.
Personal Options (or PersonalOptions) = to specify the JVM parameters.
Path JRE (or PathJRE) = pathname of the JRE if it is provided with the application. By default it will be required in the directory “jre” on the same level as the .exe or in the directory “resource”.
Path Browser (or PathBrowser) = pathname of the browser to be used for the installation possible of a JRE (by default it is the pathname of InternetExplorer).
Display BoxInstall (or Display_BoxInstall) = to indicate if a message must be displayed when JavaExe does not find a JRE or JDK, and asking whether one wishes to install a JRE or to leave the application. Only two values are accepted : '0' or '1'.
URL InstallJRE (or URL_InstallJRE) = allows to indicate a URL on which JavaExe will open a browser if no JRE or JDK is found with the launching of the application. If this property is not indicated, it is the URL on java.sun.com which will be taken.

There can be other properties if your application uses this same file for its own needs.

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JavaExe and UpdateRsrcJavaExe are creations and copyrighted of DevWizard (DevWizard@free.fr).

You are free to be useful to you about it and to provide them with your applications which you wish to distribute, who they are freeware, shareware or commercial. Only DevWizard is authorized to make an unspecified modification to JavaExe and UpdateRsrcJavaExe.

Any request for modification can be made by mail to DevWizard@free.fr