Creating EXE in Java

Java does not produce .exe files. The are various (Windows specific)

tools that do - compilers - but javac isn't one of them.

If you mean the question more generally: "How do I create files that the

user can run by double clicking them, or typing their name at a

command prompt?", then the usual method is to create a .jar file.

In Windows double clicking a .jar file usually results in javaw being run

with the .jar file as its only argument. The application contained in the

.jar file then runs.

Creating .jar files - complete with lots of examples - is covered in Sun's

Tutorial here: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/deployment/jar/index.html

(Like any document or executable a java applcation can be launched

from a .bat or .cmd file, but if you don't actually need the fine control that

these offer, .jar files are the way to go.)

pbrockway2a at 2007-7-13 18:41:19 >