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Kevin
Hello all,
I have a question of how to distribute the java programs (applications)
in a proper way, hope anyone can have some practical suggestion.
Thanks.
The issues are:
1) we don't want the end user to be able to de-compile our program. So
distribute the .jar is a bad choice. By the way, we are using JBuilder,
the JBuilder's "build to .exe" is also a bad choice since I found it
simply wrap the .jar (just change the .exe back to .zip will be able to
see all the class files).
2) since our application may need some pretty frequent update, it would
be nice if the distribution method can help it as well (it would be
hard to keep the list of users who use the program, and email them the
update). PS: the java program is about 2-4M size.
Under these two requirement, what methods are preferred?
I hear java has a WebStart, does it downloads and saves / cache the
..jar files to the client's PC?
Thanks a lot.
Kevin
I have a question of how to distribute the java programs (applications)
in a proper way, hope anyone can have some practical suggestion.
Thanks.
The issues are:
1) we don't want the end user to be able to de-compile our program. So
distribute the .jar is a bad choice. By the way, we are using JBuilder,
the JBuilder's "build to .exe" is also a bad choice since I found it
simply wrap the .jar (just change the .exe back to .zip will be able to
see all the class files).
2) since our application may need some pretty frequent update, it would
be nice if the distribution method can help it as well (it would be
hard to keep the list of users who use the program, and email them the
update). PS: the java program is about 2-4M size.
Under these two requirement, what methods are preferred?
I hear java has a WebStart, does it downloads and saves / cache the
..jar files to the client's PC?
Thanks a lot.
Kevin