10Jun/108
IzPack with Maven
What does Maven? Maven builds a project. What does IzPack? IzPack builds an installer. Naturally, one would like to use Maven to control IzPack. Here is an example of a simple application which uses Maven and IzPack to create an installer for an application.
We start by creating a pom.xml:
9Jun/102
Why IzPack?
At some point instead of shipping a product to a customer and doing some postconfigurations afterwards one decides to create an installer, which would handle all the process. Of course, having an installer is not an easy task -- installer needs to be changed along with your product. Testing the installer and supporting uninstallation are not trivial tasks as well..