create a JAVA Standalone executable application to run on different platforms without any Installation

Question

I have created a run time image for my Java application using jlink and I would like to be able to ship my app as an executable to different platforms.

Ideally, it woul

Answer 1

Yes, as of Java 8 there are two ways of doing this, using the javapackager tool, or the JavaFX Ant Tasks (which aren't actually specific to JavaFX, and are provided with the Java 8 JDK).

Here's an example of packaging an application as a Jar, setting the main-class and classpath attributes, and copying all the dependencies into a folder, using Maven.

        
            maven-dependency-plugin
            
                
                    package
                    
                        copy-dependencies
                    
                    
                        ${project.build.directory}/lib
                    
                
            
        
        
            maven-jar-plugin
            3.2.0
            
                
                    
                        true
                        ${project.groupId}.${project.artifactId}.DemoCLI
                    
                
            
        

And here is the Ant build file to package the standalone application (exe for Windows, .app and .dmg on OS X, .deb and .rpm on Linux).

    
    

    
    

   Using Java from ${java.home}