Thread: Using Eclipse to release a project

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I've just written some Java code in Eclipse and it works on my laptop in the Eclipse IDE. Now I want to install what I've written on my server.

I know in other development environments you can create setup.exe files. What I don't know is what Eclipse does, I really have no idea, which has made it difficult to Google when I don't know the keywords.

The code I've written connects to a MySQL database so I'm using a standard JAR file for that, that will probably need to considered when creating my thing to install on my server.

Does anyone know of a tutorial that explains all of this?

What are the right keywords for me creating my own set.exe file using Eclipse?

Originally Posted by Norm

What do you mean by "install on server"?
How is install different from just copying the file to the server's disk?

Which files do I need to copy over? The ones in the bin directory or the ones in the src directory?

Will any Linux server be able to interpret that it's an executable file and be able to run it?

Do I need to use Javac to every time I want to run it? Or do I just type in the name of a file?

And how will the server know know where the jar file is that I used to connect to the MySQL database?

That is loads of question I don't know the answer to.

I wrote a simple Java application that ran a stored procedure on MySQL.

I needed the Jar file to connect to MySQL, I don't know anything about this jar file, all I know is this jar file is what people use to connect to MySQL.

So with me wanting to move my Java application onto my server it requires this standard MySQL jar to work.

So how do I move the Java Application I've written over to the server?

The Java application I've written is not in a Jar file (it uses a standard jar file to connect to MySQL. But it is not in a Jar file it's self.)

I can easily get files on and off the server because I'm managing the server with Webmin. That is not the problem.

The problem is I need to create the java version of my own setup.exe so that I can install the Java application I've just written on a different machine (which is a Linux machine).

I know Linux doesn't use setup.exe files, Linux is different from Windows, but my question is basically how do I create a Linux equivalent of a Setup.exe file from my Java in Eclipse?

I know it won't be an .exe file because I'm using Linux. The reason why I mentioned .exe was simply to explain my question again.

Linux has it's own standards for installation packages which are not .exe, and I need to create a installation file for Linux. But in terms of explaining what my question was, I used the term .exe so that you could understand my original question better.

So you mentioned jar files, I was under the impression that a Jar file was just a library file equivalent the having a DLL in Windows.

If it possible to package an entire java application in a Jar file so that the Jar file is the entire installation package?

And what software do I use to create this installation package?