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<https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/19/jpackage/packaging-overview.html#GUID-C1027043-587D-418D-8188-EF8F44A4C06A|https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/19/jpackage/packaging-overview.html#GUID-C1027043-587D-418D-8188-EF8F44A4C06A>

Is this the standard way of packaging (creating installers for specific OS) for Kotlin applications?

I have never used jpackage before but it seems you can do that.

In the Java-World, you normally don’t create an `exe`-File but you deploy the result as a fat `jar` file and use a `bat`-File to start Java with the correct settings.

I know this is different from .NET and I personally would like to have a binary-creator more present, but that’s the way it is.

thanks for sharing your knowledge. can you refer to any examples. It would be very helpful for me.

jpackage works great to distribute a “small” (for JVM) application bundle as an installer, but doesn’t create self-running executables directly
<https://github.com/paul-griffith/kindling/blob/main/build.gradle.kts#L121>
<https://github.com/paul-griffith/kindling/blob/main/.github/workflows/release.yml>

there’s also third parties tools to make distributing JVM applications easier, such as jdeploy: <https://www.jdeploy.com/>
or conveyor:
<https://www.hydraulic.software/blog/1-hello.html>