Bundled app launcher changes (original) (raw)

Tobias Bley tobi at ultramixer.com
Thu Feb 16 06:13:31 PST 2012

Thanks but we is the new ant task located? Which jar file I have to add to my classpath to use the ant task?

Am 16.02.2012 um 15:02 schrieb niagarasoft20-macosxportdev at yahoo.com:

I believe the intended ant task incorporates the JavaAppLauncher executable., Mike

From: Tobias Bley <tobi at ultramixer.com> To: Greg Brown <GREG.X.BROWN at oracle.com> Cc: Mac OS X Port <macosx-port-dev at openjdk.java.net> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:27 AM Subject: Re: Bundled app launcher changes Hi, It's great to see there is a new ant task to create app bundles. But I'm a little bit confus: What is currently the right way to create a java app bundled with a privat jre of OpenJDK7? Is it the new ant task (where can I download it?) or is it the JavaAppLauncher code from Mike/Apple? Best regards, Tobi -- UltraMixer Digital Audio Solutions www.ultramixer.com

Am 10.02.2012 um 13:25 schrieb Greg Brown: Hi all, Here's an updated version of the sample Ant task Scott sent earlier. The task has been renamed to "bundleapp" rather than "bundlejars", and the element has been replaced with , which is now a file set that can point to either class directories or JAR files: <bundleapp outputdirectory="."_ _name="SwingSet2"_ _displayname="SwingSet 2"_ _identifier="com.oracle.javax.swing.SwingSet2"_ _shortversion="1.0"_ _runtime="${env.JAVAHOME}/../.."_ _mainclassname="SwingSet2"> Other changes include: - "destDir" attribute renamed "outputdirectory" - "mainclass" attribute renamed "mainclassname" - element renamed Finally, the launcher stub has been updated as outlined below to use JLILaunch(). Questions and comments are welcome. Greg On Jan 30, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Scott Kovatch wrote: Hello, Greg Brown has been busy working on an Ant task for creating a Mac .app bundle. As a preview, here's an example of it in use: <bundlejars destDir="."_ _name="SwingSet2"_ _displayname="SwingSet 2"_ _identifier="com.oracle.javax.swing.SwingSet2"_ _icon="JavaAppLauncher/resources/GenericApp.icns"_ _shortversion="1.0"_ _runtime="${env.JAVAHOME}/../.."_ _mainclass="SwingSet2"> I'm wondering where this should be checked in, though. Building an application bundle from JARs, resources, and launcher stub is really a deployment task as opposed to a pure JDK feature, but Web Start and the plugin are not open sourced so I don't see a public 'deploy' project happening in the near future. We definitely want to push this out so people can start building applications with the Mac JDK. Anyone have an opinion on that? Also, we are working on an simpler version of the launcher code that will reuse more of the generic/command-line launcher code in jdk/src/share/bin/java.c. Kumar Srinivasan checked in a refactoring of the command-line tools so that all of the runloop management, argument parsing, and other setup is now done in JLILaunch. That means we can rip out the code that duplicates that work in the app launcher and call through to JLILaunch instead. I started on this and handed it off to Greg. We should have something to share in the next week or so. -- Scott K. ---------------------------------------- Scott Kovatch scott.kovatch at oracle.com Santa Clara/Pleasanton, CA

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