launch4j

I have used these three open source tools for packaging my java apps, but they all look like abandon-ware now. All three are very good pieces of software. What are the options now? (or is using Java for desktop app development no longer a "hot" market for app developers to build & maintain these tools?). 1) exe wrapper: jsmooth - no new development in 2.5 years - does not support 64 bit. launch4j - no new development in over a year, supports 64 bit, but you can't sign the exe created by launch4j, so I prefer jsmooth, but it does not support 64 bit. 2) onejar: It works, but there has been no

Requirements I want to publish a Java GUI application on Windows 7. This application is using the Swing Toolkit and doesn't need any native code. The application is installed using an NSIS installer. I want to integrate this application into Windows 7 as good as possible. This means: When the application is running it must be possible to pin the application to the taskbar. It must be possible to associate data files with the application so Windows opens these files with my application. Must automatically work with the 32 bit Java Runtime and with the 64 bit Java runtime. So when the user

I use Launch4j as a wrapper for my Java application under Windows 7, which, to my understanding, in essence forks an instance of javaw.exe that in turn interprets the Java code. As a result, when attempting to pin my application to the task bar, Windows instead pins javaw.exe . Without the required command line, my application will then not run. As you can see, Windows also does not realize that Java is the host application: the application itself is described as "Java(TM) Platform SE binary". I have tried altering the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\javaw.exe to add the value

I am new to programming in Java but am generally familiar with how everything works. I would like to be able to put both a jar file and a jre into a windows executable(exe) so that when I distribute it, the client needn't have a JRE installed. What program should I use? I have launch4j and it seems to do exactly what I want but when I try to run the app, I get "This application was configured to use a bundled Java Runtime Environment but the runtime is missing or corrupted." I want my app to just be a runnable exe, not an installer. At the very least, can anyone show me how to correctly bundle

I have a simple java project, which requires external jars. I build this with netbeans and after Clean and Build command, I can find in dist directory the following structure: -myApp.jar -lib/ library1.jar library2.jar typical, I would say. Now, I'd like to distribute myApp.jar with dependent libraries as one exe. Is this possible? I am trying to use Launch4J. In the GUI I create the config file, there are some options in cp section <cp>lib/swing-layout-1.0.4.jar</cp> but it seems to be classpath, and it is the only place I can refer to my extra jars. After exe file is created, I can't find