Double-Clickable Exes

Whenever your installer creates menus on a Windows system, it also creates a double-clickable exe in the installation directory for each of your Java applications. This means that your customers can use Windows Explorer to start your Java app by clicking on the exe or they can use the Start | Program menu item.

Your customer can still modify the arguments to launch your application by changing the corresponding properties file for the application in the JExpress subdirectory. Please be sure to warn them not to change the labels for the AV pairs or the program won't start.

If you prefer your installers to create a shortcut in the menu for your Java apps that launches the JRE and passes the arguments directly, then you can simply delete startapp.exe from the JExpressInstaller subdirectory. We don't recommend you do this unless you are confident that the command line will never be more than 126 characters long.