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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
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Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
Posted by Siegfried Goeschl <si...@it20one.at>.
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
>
>
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Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
Posted by Manos Batsis <ma...@geekologue.com>.
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
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RE: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
Posted by John Coleman <jo...@eurobase-international.com>.
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
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From: Manos Batsis [mailto:manos_lists@geekologue.com]
Sent: 02 October 2007 12:36
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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
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Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
Posted by Manos Batsis <ma...@geekologue.com>.
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
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Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
Posted by Manos Batsis <ma...@geekologue.com>.
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/%3C20060202081759.53564.qmail@minotaur.apache.org%3E
>
> 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
>>
>> --
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>> Blog: http://www.jroller.com/page/Fester
>
>
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Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
Posted by Vincent Massol <vi...@massol.net>.
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
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Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
Posted by Wim Deblauwe <wi...@gmail.com>.
>
> 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.
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Re: How do people handle installers/exe/bat/sh in maven?
Posted by Vincent Massol <vi...@massol.net>.
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/%3C20060202081759.53564.qmail@minotaur.apache.org%3E
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
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