JavaAppLauncher and working directory

[Joe McGlynn]

I don’t believe the “app bundler” project is maintained any longer.  That code was subsumed into the “FX Packager” (which works for non-FX apps) about a year ago.  FWIW, I suspect that you need to put your application classes into a JAR file for it to work properly, but that is just a guess.

I’d recommend starting with the packager tool that is in the EA release of 8u20, it has been significantly updated for this release and if you discover a problem or feature gap that is where we’ll be working to address it.

Joe


On Apr 6, 2014, at 12:10 AM, Abu Abdullah <falcon.sheep at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to bundle my application using Oracle JavaAppLauncher (from the
> AppBundler project files). all app classes are not in Jar but in a simple
> directory structure as follow:
> 
> my.app/Contents/Java/
> my.app/Contents/Java/classes
> my.app/Contents/Java/setting
> my.app/Contents/Java/lib
> my.app/Contents/Java/bin
> my.app/Contents/Java/db
> my.app/Contents/Java/Launcher.jar           (This is just launcher jar and
> does not have any classes)
> my.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaAppLauncher
> my.app/Contents/PkgInfo
> my.app/Contents/PlugIns/jdk1.8.0.jdk
> my.app/Contents/Resources/icon.icns
> 
> I'm using scripting to do this and not by AppBundler.
> Once i launch the application, it didn't recognize its location and hence
> other folders are not seen. NullPointerException are thrown because of this.
> 
> I tried many things without successful e.g. -Duser.dir in the info.plist,
> copying the files to many places in root, in MacOS folder, in Resources
> folder, in Resources/Java folder. I'm not able to launch it. I'm
> troubleshooting by running ./JavaAppLauncher
> 
> appreciate any help