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Netbeans Application Installer Generator (updated)

Thursday Oct 25, 2007

One important and latest update : The plugin update center URL is updated to the latest one on www.openInstaller.org site. The updated plugin is also available on the NetBeans 6.5/7.0 development update center but I am not able to get the URL of of that anywhere. So you can use the update center available from www.openInstaller.org site which is here.

Thanks to one of my blog readers whom I met at Sun tech days Hyderabad yesterday who pointed this error. I happen to lost his name from my memory....

Since the announcement, there have been lot of requests for improvements for Netbeans Application Installer Generator plugin. Netbeans Community members as well as NetCAT members recognized this plugin. Many members want this plugin to support other Netbeans project types such as Java applications and web applications. I am currently working on to support creating installers for Java applications built from Netbeans. The user experience will be similar to the Netbeans module suite projects that exists today.

Today I updated the NBM with the issues reported by the community members. The following issues were addressed in this update:

On windows, the created installer, when launched from inside the Netbeans, uses the correct and existent JDK available on the system.
On Windows 2003, the plugin was not installing the product.

Thanks to all community members who reported the issues. Mainly, Wadi Jalil Maluf, Juergen and Peter Blemel.

The following are the upcoming tasks that I am working on now:

Support installer creation for Mac OS X.
Support for installer creation of Java application projects.
Uploading the sources to http://contrib.netbeans.org.

The update center URL is still the same : here. Try out this update and let me know what do you think..

One more update: The plugin is going to be part of the development Auto Update Center modules and will be available for download from the same update center inside NB 6.0. Here is the issue related to this request.

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