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PackJacket is an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

application to create cross-platform Java installers. The installer generated can be a JAR

JAR (file format)

In software, JAR is an archive file format typically used to aggregate many Java class files and associated metadata and resources into one file to distribute application software or libraries on the Java platform.JAR files are built on the ZIP file format and have the .jar file extension...

or an EXE

EXE

EXE is the common filename extension denoting an executable file in the DOS, OpenVMS, Microsoft Windows, Symbian, and OS/2 operating systems....

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PackJacket takes care of the XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

code, compiling to Java, and wrapping into an EXE

EXE

EXE is the common filename extension denoting an executable file in the DOS, OpenVMS, Microsoft Windows, Symbian, and OS/2 operating systems....

for faster and simpler generation of installers.

PackJacket is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

General

Cross-platform GUI - Confirmed to work on Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Ubuntu
Save configurations
Create XML, JAR, EXE installers
Open-source - Licensed under GPL

Add to Installer

General information (i.e. name, version, website)
Authors of application
License and info panels in text or html form
Dimensions of the installer
Languages installer will be available in
Assortment of common panels
Windows/Unix shortcuts
Change Look and Feel depending on the user's operating system
Header text and images on installer
Step Counter (e.g. Step 3 of 7) in form of text or progress bar
Logo on language selection screen
Image on side of installer
Installer can be split up
Packs, more below
User Input to get some input from the user
Running processes

Packs

General information (i.e. name, description, mandatory, pre-selected)
Icon
What packs it depends on
What operating system to install on
Add files, directories
Rename a file once installed
What operating system to install the file on
Parents of packs
Make any file executable

External references

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