Windows Installer doesn't have support for .NET custom actions either and yet it's possible.
I wouldn't do this in an install but checkout IKVM.NET. Then you can use DTF to present it as a type 1 to MSI. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thu, September 9, 2010 6:35:24 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to call java from wix I don't think that the Windows Installer supports calling into Java. Did you see something new in the MSI SDK that says they added support for custom actions written in Java? On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Major shao <majors...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > i want to call java from wix using customaction like the following. i think > at least TARGETDIR is wrong here, anything else? > <CustomAction Id="PatchWrapper" Directory="TARGETDIR" > ExeCommand="c:\Impact360\Software\JDK\bin\java -classpath > >[TARGETDIR];[TARGETDIR]\emtEncrypt.jar;[TARGETDIR]\log4j-1.2.15.jar;[TARGETDIR]\commons-logging.jar;[TARGETDIR]\commonEjbTierUtils.jar >r > [TARGETDIR]\PatchWrapperMain" /> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Automate Storage Tiering Simply > Optimize IT performance and efficiency through flexible, powerful, > automated storage tiering capabilities. View this brief to learn how > you can reduce costs and improve performance. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Automate Storage Tiering Simply Optimize IT performance and efficiency through flexible, powerful, automated storage tiering capabilities. View this brief to learn how you can reduce costs and improve performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Automate Storage Tiering Simply Optimize IT performance and efficiency through flexible, powerful, automated storage tiering capabilities. View this brief to learn how you can reduce costs and improve performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
