How to create an EXE of the Java application?

[Anonymous]

Can anyone help me I need to know if I can run a Java application on a client m/c without the client having the JVM.
Thanks in advance.

[Vadiraj Deshpande]

Originally posted by Pallavi:
Can anyone help me I need to know if I can run a Java application on a client m/c without the client having the JVM.
Thanks in advance.

Hello Pallavi
I don't think you can create an EXE version of a Java application since EXE belongs to a single platform(Windows) and Java doesn't belong to anyone.(I mean its same on every platform).
If you are working in Windows and still need to invoke your Java application from explorer or from desktop you can create a batch file like the one shown below create a shortcut for the batch file.
One more thing. You can't escape from the JVM.
All the Best
Batch file --
@echo off
rem set path or set classpath depending on your OS(WinNT or Windows 95/98)
java <fileName>
vadiraj

[paul wheaton]

I'm moving this thread to the Java Intermediate forum. The people that generally check the cattle drive forum are not going to know about EXE stuff.

[paul wheaton]

There are tools that will generate an EXE, but it seems that most folks prefer to use just byte code.

[Alpana Sabnis]

Originally posted by vadiraj deshpande:
Hello Pallavi
I don't think you can create an EXE version of a Java application since EXE belongs to a single platform(Windows) and Java doesn't belong to anyone.(I mean its same on every platform).
If you are working in Windows and still need to invoke your Java application from explorer or from desktop you can create a batch file like the one shown below create a shortcut for the batch file.
One more thing. You can't escape from the JVM.
All the Best
Batch file --
@echo off
rem set path or set classpath depending on your OS(WinNT or Windows 95/98)
java <fileName>
vadiraj

Hello Vadiraj,
Thank you so much for your help. I need to know some thing more.
Is there any way to embed the necessary files to create a JRE along with the application so that the client machine need not have a JVM.
For instance if you are creating a stand alone application which can be downloaded from the internet as an exe then how do you go about it?
Would appreciate the help.
Pallavi.

[Alpana Sabnis]

Originally posted by Paul Wheaton:
There are tools that will generate an EXE, but it seems that most folks prefer to use just byte code.

Thanks Paul,
Can you throw more light on this.....
Pallavi.

[srinivas acharyulu]

Hi Pallavi!
You can create a executable file from java also. You just open the same file in VisualCafe and in the options you can directly make this file as an executable file.But there is one limitation that this executable file is going to run on windows platform only.

[Alpana Sabnis]

Originally posted by srinivas acharyulu:
Hi Pallavi!
You can create a executable file from java also. You just open the same file in VisualCafe and in the options you can directly make this file as an executable file.But there is one limitation that this executable file is going to run on windows platform only.

Thanks Srinivas. that was helpful.

[Anonymous]

hello pallavi
I think you are not aware of the existence of jre.exe (available from download.com and others). You can ship these with your application if those are only console based
hope that helps