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Our company has developed a web application based on Struts2 + Spring + Hibernate. My boss wants me to make a installation CD contains JRE, Tomcat, MySQL, and our product, so that the client can just click sth like installMe.exe and follow the wizard to complete the installation. I used to deploy web application with war. Just put it under tomcat webapps folder, and start tomcat. Which software should I choose to complete my boss's task? Thanks, guys.

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You need to create an installer script and tell the installer where to put the files. I have used two, advanced installer which creates an MSI or Nullsoft which is from the guys who created winamp. A lot of open source companies are using it. I'd recommend the fist one, and getting a license to do the more complicated stuff.

The installation of Java is handled automatically with advanced installer. There is even a cool java template you can start from.

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  • Thanks for your help! I'm working on bat file to install the whole thing. I've tried installShield and ext4j, but they are not what I want. I'm going to try your software. Thanks again. – user889630 Aug 19 '11 at 04:58
  • You're welcome! Don't forget to accept an answer. We work hard for these points ;) – Amir Raminfar Aug 24 '11 at 19:32