Jar Launcher

Provides an ant task to take a jar file and convert it into a single file executable that can be run directly on Windows (.exe) or any Posix-like system like a native executable.

Building

ant dist

jarlauncher-ant.jar will be deposited in build/dist

Using

<taskdef name="jarexec" classname="net.rcode.buildtools.JarExecTask">
	<classpath>
		<pathelement location="directory/of/jarlauncher-ant.jar"/>
	</classpath>
</taskdef>

<jarexec target="shell" source="myproject.jar" dest="myposixexecutable"/>
<chmod perm="a+x" file="myposixexecutable"/>

<jarexec target="exe" source="myproject.jar" dest="mywindowsexecutable.exe"/>