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I'm using IzPack 5.0 beta 11 to package up my Java application. How do I get a program installed using IzPack on Windows to appear in Program and Features as an installed program? EDIT I've found some information about putting things in the registry with Izpack 5 http://docs.codehaus.org/display/IZPACK/registry but Im still struggling to understand quite what I do the documentation is vague. I simply want my program to be shown in Programs and Features, and it be possible to uninstall from there. So I found this page http://docs.codehaus.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=142803064 , the

I have an application for which we use IzPack to create the installer. The installer is working fine in its current state, however, I need to add functionality that enables it to check whether an existing version of the software has been installed. I understand IzPack supports this out of the box using its CheckedHelloPanel , unfortunately that only works for Windows, as it appears to depend on the windows registry. Is there a way to configure IzPack such that it is able to detect existing installations ? I need to be able to detect whether there is one and merely display a message notifying

I use izpack to create an installer for my application. So far I was able to create the installer and on my linux machine everything is fine. The problem is that on the windows machines I tested it on (Win7 and WinXP) the installer did not show the shortcut panel. I did read the documentation troubleshooting section and took care that I have the natives in my installer. Same goes for the shortcut xml file, they are in the installer in the resources path. I also read that most likely it is a case sensitive typo or something similar simple but could not figure it out. Here is my shortcut xml: <

I use izpack to create an installer for my application. So far I was able to create the installer and on my linux machine everything is fine. The problem is that on the windows machines I tested it on (Win7 6bits) the installer did not show the shortcut panel. I did read the documentation troubleshooting section and took care that I have the natives in my installer. Same goes for the shortcut xml file, they are in the installer in the resources path. I also read that most likely it is a case sensitive typo or something similar simple but could not figure it out. Here is my shortcut xml:

I make an installer with izpack . Its in .jar file. I want to make it in .exe file in order to distribute it. How can I do it in an easy way? eee Andrew always likes to promote Java Web Start technology from the start :) It is a nice tech. But, you also need to learn the technical parts first before you can start tinkering with it. Otherwise, you are left with the old-style EXE distribution model as follows... I am not familiar with Izpack anyway. But, there are similar separate tools to achieve the combined result as to what izPack can do. My favorite EXE creation and installer tools are