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This old powerplant was only partly abandoned, so it was a bit more euhm exciting to get in unseen 
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Single JAR - .exe & mac app
And now the second part (see http://arnoraps.tweakblog.../netbeans-single-jar.html ) how to create a user-friendly version of your executable jar.
For Windows .exe use
Launch4j Can be run on Windows, Mac and Linux
For Mac, download the Jar Bundler ( a part of Xcode) here
http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/ Can only be run on Mac
In both programs you'll have to set the location of your fat single jar, set some details on minimum Java version and of course a nice little icon.

For Windows .exe use
Launch4j Can be run on Windows, Mac and Linux
For Mac, download the Jar Bundler ( a part of Xcode) here
http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/ Can only be run on Mac
In both programs you'll have to set the location of your fat single jar, set some details on minimum Java version and of course a nice little icon.
Netbeans - Single JAR
Netbeans is one of the free great Java IDE's, but its default build creates a dist folder with a small jar and a subfolder with the libraries.
In eclipse I had a plugin called "fat-jar" which would build one big jar. In Netbeans this is possible with a small piece of xml config in the build.xml: (add at the end, before the closing project tag)
code:
Now after your development, testing you can build a single, executable, jar file, by right mouse clicking on the build.xml file and selecting the proper target:

Next step would be building the windows exe and mac app bundle from this executable jar.
In eclipse I had a plugin called "fat-jar" which would build one big jar. In Netbeans this is possible with a small piece of xml config in the build.xml: (add at the end, before the closing project tag)
code:
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| <target name="package-for-store" depends="jar">
<!-- Change the value of this property to be the name of your JAR,
minus the .jar extension. It should not have spaces.
<property name="store.jar.name" value="MyJarName"/>
-->
<property name="store.jar.name" value="VDSL2tool"/>
<!-- don't edit below this line -->
<property name="store.dir" value="store"/>
<property name="store.jar" value="${store.dir}/${store.jar.name}.jar"/>
<echo message="Packaging ${application.title} into a single JAR at ${store.jar}"/>
<delete dir="${store.dir}"/>
<mkdir dir="${store.dir}"/>
<jar destfile="${store.dir}/temp_final.jar" filesetmanifest="skip">
<zipgroupfileset dir="dist" includes="*.jar"/>
<zipgroupfileset dir="dist/lib" includes="*.jar"/>
<manifest>
<attribute name="Main-Class" value="${main.class}"/>
</manifest>
</jar>
<zip destfile="${store.jar}">
<zipfileset src="${store.dir}/temp_final.jar"
excludes="META-INF/*.SF, META-INF/*.DSA, META-INF/*.RSA"/>
</zip>
<delete file="${store.dir}/temp_final.jar"/>
</target> |
Now after your development, testing you can build a single, executable, jar file, by right mouse clicking on the build.xml file and selecting the proper target:

Next step would be building the windows exe and mac app bundle from this executable jar.
















