Hi everyone,
Today I worked on preparing an IzPack-based installer for Glassfish v3.
I started by deriving from the work I did for v2, took the latest
promoted build and tuned it. The result is that:
1. the installer is able to bootstrap the update center (even behind a proxy)
2. Glassfish v3 can be started after having been installed (amazingly fast!)
3. the installer weights several megabytes less than the "official"
platform-specific installers (and should I mention that IzPack IS
cross-platform?)
Remember that this is only a few hours of work and that I could not
test it properly on something else than Mac OS X 10.4, … but you
should reasonably expect it to work.
The installer is available from
http://snapshots.dist.codehaus.org/izpack/glassfish-v3-latest-install.jar
There is also a Pack200-compressed one (only 15M!) at
http://snapshots.dist.codehaus.org/izpack/glassfish-v3-latest-install-pack200.jar,
but Glassfish doesn't start properly. I uploaded it so that it can be
investigated where the issue actually is (Felix? a GF component?).
Anyway thanks for reporting any issue you might encounter. I expect to
improve it further in the future. Especially, interacting with the
update center after it has been bootstrapped would be useful (e.g.,
for installing third-party modules straight from the installer).
Cheers
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