如何首先安装第三方msi或exe或bin，然后完成安装后启动主应用程序？

Question

Here is the problem, myapp.jar works and runs. But it has other native dependencies.

• It has other third party libraries dependencies, which need to be installed first in windows and linux/mac depending on the user platform.

• How the third_ party _will_it_install_or_just_download_only.exe OR third_ party _will_it_install_or_just_download_only.bin

Can be installed automatically ? They are themselves separate installations also.

>     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>     <jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://localhost:8080/" 
> href="advance.jnlp" >
>     
>     
>       <information>
>         <title>Test</title>
>         <vendor>Testing</vendor>
>         <homepage href="http://localhost:8080/"/>
>         <description>Demo</description>
>         <offline-allowed/>
>       </information>
>       
>     
>       <security>
>         <all-permissions/>
>       </security>
>       
>     
>       <resources>
>         <property name="jnlp.packEnabled" value="true"/>
>         <jar href="myapp.jar" />
>       </resources>
>     
>       <resources os="Windows" arch="x86"> 
>     
>         <j2se version="1.5+"/>
>     
>         <jar href="third___party___will_it_install_or_just_download_only.exe"/>
>     
>       </resources>
>     
>       <resources os="Linux" arch="i386">
>         <j2se version="1.5+"/>
>         <jar href="third___party___will_it_install_or_just_download_only.bin"/>
>       </resources>
>       
>       <application-desc main-class="web.Application" />
>       
>     </jnlp>

Answer 1

There's a demo here .

Note: the entry point for the installer must be a .jar, so if you want to launch an .exe or .msi you must create another process from within the .jar

Answer 2

If the installers simply do the effect of adding natives to the run-time class-path, then the ExtensionInstallerService will not be required.

In that case, just add the natives themselves to the root of a Jar file for each OS and add references to those Jars into the resources section (suitably partitioned for each OS) as nativelib elements.

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@finnw BTW: Nice link to the EIS demo. I might be biased though - I wrote it. ;)