How to make installer of java desktop application for multi-platform?

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Balwant Singh picture Balwant Singh · Jun 11, 2009 · Viewed 23k times · Source

How could we made a jar file's installer, which can run on multi-platform. Is there any simple way, because I don't know Java much well.

Balwant

Answer

Jonik picture Jonik · Jun 11, 2009

Installer tools for Java have been dealt with in quite many questions on SO, and most options have probably been mentioned already:

See also other questions tagged java+installer.

If a commercial tool is ok, the best multi-platform installer for Java software, to my knowledge, is install4j; I can definitely recommend it (more about my experiences with it).

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