Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
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 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 plugin)? Something else you use? regards, Wim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
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 it too and decided it was just simpler to use AntRun... -Vincent - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
> > 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: http://vigilog.sourceforge.net Blog: http://www.jroller.com/page/Fester
Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
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 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MOJO-277 which I installed in my custom remo repo. For launch4j I simply used its Ant task that I called using the AntRun plugin. To see how it's done check the XWiki sources here: http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xwiki-products/xwiki-enterprise/trunk/installers/ My next step is to have a look at the daemon plugin from Apache since this plugin seem to support various installers and in additions allows starting your app as a daemon. Some pointers: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/directory-commits/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/directory/daemon/daemon-plugin/1.1.1/ http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/directory/trunks/daemon/installers-plugin/pom.xml?view=log&pathrev=374299 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/felix/sandbox/akarasulu/mavenized/installers/pom.xml?revision=383421&view=markup&pathrev=383421 If someone gets this to work fine it would be nice to report it here. Thanks -Vincent On Oct 2, 2007, at 1:28 PM, 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 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 plugin)? Something else you use? regards, Wim -- Vigilog - an open source log file viewer: http://vigilog.sourceforge.net Blog: http://www.jroller.com/page/Fester - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
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 used its Ant task that I called using the AntRun plugin. To see how it's done check the XWiki sources here: http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xwiki-products/xwiki-enterprise/ trunk/installers/ My next step is to have a look at the daemon plugin from Apache since this plugin seem to support various installers and in additions allows starting your app as a daemon. Some pointers: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/directory-commits/ 200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/directory/daemon/daemon- plugin/1.1.1/ http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/directory/trunks/daemon/installers- plugin/pom.xml?view=log&pathrev=374299 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/felix/sandbox/akarasulu/ mavenized/installers/pom.xml?revision=383421&view=markup&pathrev=383421 If someone gets this to work fine it would be nice to report it here. Thanks -Vincent On Oct 2, 2007, at 1:28 PM, 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 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 plugin)? Something else you use? regards, Wim -- Vigilog - an open source log file viewer: http:// vigilog.sourceforge.net Blog: http://www.jroller.com/page/Fester - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
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 they drop the WAR into Tomcat, deploy, stop the webapp then edit the config files manually (yuk). Would be great to have an installer, GUI and command line based, that does the deployment more smoothly and can display settings files neatly in panels. I don't think IZPack meets these requirements though, perhaps it can be extended. Actually it does, even indirectly. We have used IZPack to create, configure build and deploy EARs and databases in the past; we just had IZPack use our existing Ant build for all this (we actually included an Ant distribution in the installer back then). I am sure it is far more advanced now (have not used it for a year) but even then it was pretty flexible, as it had plenty of useful "panels" and hooks to use for any custom stuff. And since it is OS, it can be extended ;-) Cheers, Manos - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
Hi, 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 they drop the WAR into Tomcat, deploy, stop the webapp then edit the config files manually (yuk). Would be great to have an installer, GUI and command line based, that does the deployment more smoothly and can display settings files neatly in panels. I don't think IZPack meets these requirements though, perhaps 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 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 plugin)? > Something else you use? We always liked IZPack [1], so the maven-izpack-plugin [2] was a natural next step for us ;-) [1] http://izpack.org/ [2] http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven-izpack-plugin/index.html Cheers, Manos - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eurobase International Limited and its subsidiaries (Eurobase) are unable to exercise control over the content of information in E-Mails. Any views and opinions expressed may be personal to the sender and are not necessarily those of Eurobase. Eurobase will not enter into any contractual obligations in respect of any part of its business in any E-mail. Privileged / confidential information may be contained in this message and /or any attachments. This E-mail is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only and may contain confidential information. If you are not the / an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us immediately, and then delete this E-mail. Neither the sender nor Eurobase accepts any liability whatsoever for any defects of any kind either in or arising from this E-mail transmission. E-Mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free, as messages can be intercepted, lost, corrupted, destroyed, contain viruses, or arrive late or incomplete. Eurobase does not accept any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan any attachments. Eurobase Systems Limited is the main trading company in the Eurobase International Group; registered in England and Wales as company number 02251162; registered address: Essex House, 2 County Place, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 0RE, UK. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 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 plugin)? Something else you use? We always liked IZPack [1], so the maven-izpack-plugin [2] was a natural next step for us ;-) [1] http://izpack.org/ [2] http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven-izpack-plugin/index.html Cheers, Manos - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
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 plugin)? Something else you use? regards, Wim -- Vigilog - an open source log file viewer: http://vigilog.sourceforge.net Blog: http://www.jroller.com/page/Fester