Standalone .exe's?

[Hostile]

j0k3r, you're developing a habit of totally missing someones point. I suggest either work on improving your reading skills or getting your eyes examined... perhaps its just your comprehension or denial of being stupid? Either way, we already found a great free compiler for making java standalone executables and the best place to get the VM is on www.java.com so lets leave it at that.

[iago]

http://download.com.com/3000-2417-1987574.html?tag=lst-0-1

Apparently, this can run .class files as if they were normal .exe files.  

- Thanks to MorsRedigo for finding this - (I promised I'd give him credit )

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

That's no different than an executable JAR...except worse.

[iago]

How do you make a jar executable?  I didn't even know jar's existed until just recently.

Note: he needs it for a windows machine.

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

Cross platform my friend

Look up the docs for the jar tool; my commands might be wrong, haven't done java in a loooong time.


Basically, you have a bunch of .class files for your application. One of them has a main() method. You create a special "manifest" file, which looks like:

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Main-class: mypackage.MyClass


Remember the trailing endline! Then execute something like:

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jar cvfm MyJarFile.jar manifest packagename