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Bug 92486

Summary:	How to make an MacOSX Bundle of the java program?
Product:	java	Reporter:	saulz <saulz>
Component:	Project	Assignee:	Tomas Zezula <tzezula>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description saulz 2007-01-13 11:08:37 UTC

Hi,

I use NetBeans to make Java programs , now i want to make a MacOSX Bundle of my application.

I find this tutorial in java.sun.com :
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/JavaLP/JavaToMac3

But in my case don't works , because in use Matisse in NetBeans and this generate a folder lib with 
Swing layouts that i don't know where to put to make my Bundle working.

Would be a good idea to make an option in NetBeans to make a MacOSX Bundle of the current project 
or make an update guide to make MacOSX Bundle of the project of NetBeans.

Thanks.

Comment 1 Marian Petras 2007-01-17 14:01:18 UTC

Module Properties is for creating "resource bundles", i.e. files containing
localized (or localizable) strings.

Reassigned to module Form (makers of Matisse) as their members should have more
experience with issues like this one.

Comment 2 Tomas Pavek 2007-01-17 14:42:28 UTC

The whole content of the 'dist' folder is needed to run your application. (JAR 
files in 'lib' folder are refered to from the application JAR file - and are 
supposed to be in 'lib' sub-folder.)
See also:
http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/FaqDeployingMatisseBasedProjects
http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/FaqPackagingMatisseBasedProjects

I don't know how Mac OS X Bundle works. We don't produce produce platform 
specific packages/installers for Java apps. Reassigning to build sys if they 
want to keep this as RFE...

Comment 3 Milan Kubec 2007-03-22 12:16:40 UTC

Changing to RFE, probably a project for our contrib area.

Comment 4 janlolling 2007-10-24 10:11:20 UTC

you can easy create a mac os x application bundle with the ant task jarbundler. Jarbundler is not part of the ant core
and must add separate but works very well and is easy to use.