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Comment by spullara | Hacker News Reader

IMHO, the best way to distribute java programs is create a single jar and the append that jar to this shell script:

    #!/bin/sh
    exec java $JAVA_OPTS -jar "$0" "$@"

really-executable-jars codifies this as a Maven plugin:

and then it doesnt run on windows...so much for run everywhere...

the best way to distribute a package is to create a proper package for each plateform and encapsulate any java "gimmick".

Right, you don't need the script as long as it's an executable jar, it will run fine with:

  java -jar Product.jar

If there are any native libraries then they need to be built into the jar, you could do one jar or one for each platform.

Windows? Really? I think there is an SNL skit in there somewhere for people still deploying server software on Windows.