jar to mac os .app

[Doua Beri]

Hi. I saw that are a lot of tools that can convert an executable jar to an exe application. I searched on google and didn't find any tools that can convert jar to mac os .app . Do you know any? Thanks

[Maneesh Godbole]

A properly built jar (with a manifest file containing the Main-Class entry) is self executable and can run on all platforms. Why do you want to go the exe and dmg path?

[Doua Beri]

Maneesh Godbole wrote:A properly built jar (with a manifest file containing the Main-Class entry) is self executable and can run on all platforms. Why do you want to go the exe and dmg path?

yes I know. I made .exe from jar because it is much more easy for my customers to run the program. ( i embedded the virtual machine in the exe) I want to do the same thing for mac, but I didn't find any software that can do this.

[Ulf Dittmer]

I don't think it's possible to embed an installable JRE on OS X. But all versions of OS X already have Java installed, so this shouldn't be necessary to begin with.

[Doua Beri]

Ulf Dittmer wrote:I don't think it's possible to embed an installable JRE on OS X. But all versions of OS X already have Java installed, so this shouldn't be necessary to begin with.

ok. but can I make an executable jar to an .app in the same way I make a jar to an exe for windows os ?

[Ulf Dittmer]

Yes, the OS X Developer Tools contain an application called "Jar Bundler" for this purpose, and there's a project called "jarbundler" on SourceForge that wraps an Ant task around that functionality.