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Windows JRun Installers


Overview of Windows installations

The JRun SDK includes merge modules that correspond to functional components in JRun. You can easily customize these modules, and add or remove them from installers on the Windows platform.

When creating custom installers for the Windows platform, you have two choices:

This section explains the differences between the two environments. Subsequent sections describe how to create custom JRun installers for each of these types of environments.

If you do not use the merge modules in a Windows Installer environment or the included Windows Installer wrapper, you can create your own custom installer using the raw filesets in the sdk_root/filesets directory.

Windows Installer environments

The Microsoft Windows Installer technology uses setup rules to manage the installation and removal of applications. The JRun SDK provides merge modules for building custom JRun installers with the Windows Installer tool.

You can use the Windows Installer tool in the following GUI environments:

You can also execute an installation with the Windows Installer tool from the command line, as described in the section "Using Windows Installer on the command line".

For more information on creating custom JRun installers using the Windows Installer tool, see "Customizing JRun installers with Windows Installer".

For information on using InstallShield 7 to build a JRun installer, see "Working with InstallShield Developer 7".

For more information on using the Windows Installer tool, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msi/wiport_6gf9.asp.

Non-Windows Installer environments

Some installer developers use non-Windows Installer environments. JRun provides a wrapper for working with Windows Installer merge modules in a non-Windows Installer environment on a Windows platform.

The following installer development environments do not conform to the Windows Installer standard:

For information on using the Windows Installer wrapper that lets you use the merge modules to build JRun installers in a non-Windows Installer environment, see "Using the Windows Installer wrapper".

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danger42 said on Jun 28, 2002 at 5:07 PM :
To get the platform-specific merge modules, you must download an additional ZIP file. Go to http://www.macromedia.com/software/jrun/oem/ and click the "Download JRun SDK" link.

The following file contains the Windows merge modules you use to build custom JRun installations on the Windows platform:
jrun4-win-sdk-mm-en.zip (ZIP, 42.7MB)

 

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