Posted by LordSmoke on May 15, 2012; 3:38pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Move-to-native-jar-nearly-there-but-not-quite-tp3982739p3988317.html

gouessej wrote

Java Web Start is not difficult to use and you can use another installer if you prefer, it would be more user friendly than a zip. If you want to get more feedbacks, you should do your best to ease the install process.

With this prodding, I looked around and found PackJacket and IzPack. The former is an older ('09) graphical front-end to the current latter. I now have three platform-specific installers, and the user can download the one they want - dbl-click and go. Only complexity is setting the exec flag on Linux, but if they are using Linux, that should not be too bad. Also, the result does not do well overwriting earlier installations of the software and failed to create a windows-executable .exe. All good enough for now. Will look into WebStart (or have students do that) later.

-LS