Hi everybody,

I followed the Invaders tutorial and I'm trying to make it into an exe file. I have JBuilder 9 and I tried the "Native Executable" tool and it just opens up the program and closes it. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advanced,
C++

java was not designed to natively run on any operating system, so any thing like your jbuilder is completly independent of sun java. As far as i know many java to exe compilers are actually convert java to c++ then compile that, which might be why it doesn't work

you might want to consider creating a jnlp file instead

What is the code you're running. I think I might know what your problem is, but I have to see the code you're using to confirm my suspissions.

paradox,

thanx! that makes sense. How exactly do u create a jnlp file?

and also how 2 make it into an exe file?

Thank you again.

can somebody PLEASE help?

Thanx

There's a lot of information on JavaWebstart, read it.

And if you'd read other replies you'd know by now that you do NOT make exes out of Java classfiles.
There are some expensive tools out there that can do it, which a search engine should turn up, but that completely defeats the purpose of the language.

What program are you trying to turn into an exe ... is it a GUI based program or a command line program ?? if its a GUI program then there's an option in JBuilder about making a GUI exe ... and if its a command line program then you'll have to take care that you input some random thing at the end of the program so that it may show up until you press that key ....

The native exe option is just an exewrapper to facilitate easier starting of the application.
It still needs an installed JVM on the target machine.
Effectively it's little more than a glorified batchfile
This is the normal way for Java.