Open Source Java Installers

YAJSW is an Apache licensed pure java alternative for tanuki java service wrapper. It implements a multitude of additional functions and can be easily extended with groovy scripts. JSW configurations can be easily ported.

Configurable tool which allows Java applications to be installed and controlled like native NT or Unix services. Includes fault correction software to automatically restart crashed or frozen JVMs. Critical when app is needed 24x7. Built for flexibility.

JSmooth creates standard Windows executable files (.exe) that smartly launch java applications. It makes java deployment much smoother and user-friendly, as it is able to find and run Java VMs by itself, or help the user get one if none are available.

One-JAR(TM) is a simple solution to a vexing problem in Java: how to distribute an application as a single jar-file, when it depends on multiple other jar-files. One-JAR uses a custom classloader to discover library jar files inside the main jar.

The Indian Linux Project Goal is to build a Indian language enabled Linux distro & applications with support for Indian Languages

WinRun4J is a Windows native launcher for your Java application. The goal is to provide a more professional deployment mechanism for Java apps on Windows.

Lopica is a collection of scripts, code snippets, extension installers, FAQs, how-tos, and other goodies for Java Web Start/JNLP.

A high-quality JNLP client that can also be used as a component to provide applications with Java Network Launching Protocol features and support. Netx downloads code over the network, caches it, and runs it in a secure sandbox environment.

quattor is a system administration toolkit providing a powerful, portable and modular toolsuite for the automated installation, configuration and management of clusters and farms running UNIX derivates like Linux and Solaris. Quattor no longer uses SourceForge for hosting, please see http://github.com/quattor for source code and http://www.quattor.org for more up-to-date information about the project.

This project is an automated and standardized setup for executing BeanShell scripts. It sets up a file association and icon for the .bsh file extension. It starts BeanShell scripts with a standardized CLASSPATH that includes directories for adding your own commands. Some nice new commands are also included. Only Windows is supported currently but other systems could be added. To start the install process, just double-click the beanshell-setup.jar from your desktop or Windows Explorer. Go to https://github.com/gungwald/beanshell-setup for the code.

dismGUI is a Graphical User Interface written in Java for Microsofts command-line tool "dism" (Deployment Image Servicing and Management). Features are developed on request only.

Remote Update Tool allows to update your application remotely

A GUI Frontend to IzPack built with Java Swing to create an installer for your application. Installers are cross-platform, multi-language and very versatile to fit your needs.

Great and powerful application to generate stable and multi-platform java installers. Watch a demo of DCP Setup Maker's installer being made in 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmF5Kyla7Hg Its intuitive UI and exceptional ease of use makes it very easy to build complex installers with large amounts of files. The whole process is done step by step through a wizard-like interface, filling in fields and setting up files to finally build your package. *Required: Java 1.6+ Powered by Java, IzPack, Apache Pivot, Apache Ant, Nuget, launch4j and Stax. Source code migrated to https://github.com/DevComPack/setupmaker

SmartFrog (Smart Framework for Object Groups) is a framework for configuring and automatically activating distributed applications. The SmartFrog framework is released under LGPL license. More info at: www.smartfrog.org

UBCD Creator is a Java graphical interface for extracting, creating, patching, and applying plugins to an Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) CD image. The plugins allows adding additional open source software or commercial software to UBCD.

Creates Installers using Ant by configuring an XML file (no java required): The installer collects user input, then run specific Ant targets from a build.xml file. Runs in a Swing GUI or on the command line.

This tool will compile CML2 (rulebase) to C or Java. It is mainly developed for configuring Linux kernels.

SWT Web Installer is a Java library that helps to install Java applications based on SWT. With it, it is the application itself that downloads and installs the right version of the SWT library for the PC in which is running.

a simple JavaFx application to install Jar (java compiled files) on windows platform

UberImaging centrally controls the disk imaging process of many nodes on a network. Clients booted via PXE are served a small initrd image containing udpcast, a client module, and other tools allowing clients to be remotely controlled by a portable GUI.

Configuration Repository System is a set applications and tooling to centralize configurations for applications.