Deployment

[Michael Hall]

Brief question. What is the recommended deployment tool for applications at this time?

Less brief background.
I’ve installed the java 9 ea releases. A while back for the jdk, today the jre as well.
I was going to work on some application code I haven’t been into for a while. 
I noticed some things not working, one thought was conflicts between the jre version and jdk. The application has some tools related functionality so it did some stuff with ClassLoaders to include tools.jar from the jdk. 
So I downloaded the JRE as well. Same problems.
So now I’d like to check against a java 8 version of the application since the functionality in 9 just might not be there yet. 
So trying to figure out how to have multiple versions with different JRE/JDK pairs. 
Also considering putting some effort into making the application cross-platform. It has pretty much turned into a strictly Mac application. So good cross-platform deployment would be nice.

Thanks for any related information.

Michael Hall

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