Making a java .exe

[Radames]

Is there anything else to make exe's out of java? I tried geting JtoEXE but there seems to be nowhere you can download it form. Even the company's site is 'under construction'.

[Dillinger4]

Sun's Site:
http://industry.java.sun.com/soluti...2299-25,00.html

You can download JtoExe here:
http://home.javaarchives.com/development_-_java.html

[Dillinger4]

This is what crypticblade said..... Sun's site should be running
as for the other one im not sure.

[Radames]

Thanks, I got it but JtoEXE does not work with Java 2. Bummer.

[VirtuallyVB]

Are you certain that it won't work with Java 2? I was hoping that would simplify my deployment issues.

[Radames]

At least the version I found, when I tried to use it, there were redio buttons that asked me what version of java Im using, and the options were 1.1 and 1.2

[billrogers]

Java 1.1 is Java 1
Java 1.2 is Java 2
Java 1.3 is Java 3

So you should be good to go.

[Radames]

Nope, I think youre confusing the JDK version with the language version. There is no Java 3 (yet).

[VirtuallyVB]

SDK 1.2 and SDK 1.3 is Java 2, but the JtoExe.exe says to choose JDK 1.1 or JDK 2.0. I'm pretty sure that JDK and SDK follow the same version numbers, but I'm assuming that the JtoExe.exe means Java 2 when it says JDK 2.0.

I haven't tested it yet on my Java 2 app using SDK 1.3.

[VirtuallyVB]

Okay, I decided to try a "Hello World" java console application with JtoExe.exe. Sure it created an executable that ran the popup window that said I had 30 days left on this unregistered version. But my "app" never said, "Hello World" although the popup said it would start in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 seconds.

Also, the command prompt I was running from returned before the popup window hid. That might be an important point for a console app. I guess I'll try a Frame. But I think at least a new shell should have opened (like when you run a dos batch file from explorer).

Okay, a Frame works. So I guess you need a GUI.

import java.awt.*;

public class Hw{
 public static void main(String[] args){
  System.out.println("Hello World");//Didn't Work
  new Frame().show();//Works
 }
}

I'll give it the thumbs up for my immediate need. Their site is under construction when I was looking for the cost for a fully functioning version though.

Both the above Hw app and my more complex app are about 205KB (in the unregistered version). That's strange, but I'm not complaining.