Deploying Java game help

Posted by DivideByZero

May 28th, 2011 11:01 am

I’m making my entry in Java (as I stated in a previous post), but I don’t know how to deploy my game so that you guys can download it.

I’m using Eclipse as my IDE and pure Java only, no external frameworks.

Any ideas on the best way to deploy my game?

Thanks for any help

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4 Responses to “Deploying Java game help”

1. montyontherun says:

   May 28, 2011 at 11:10 am

   That depends on the nature of the application. Is it a Java Applet? If yes, then its pretty easy:
   Embed the jar or the main .class file on a html page and you’re done.

   If you’re using Webstart or creating a desktop java app, then things get a little fuzzy. But you will need to be more specific.

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2. DivideByZero says:

   May 28, 2011 at 11:38 am

   It’s a desktop java application.
   I’ve only started Java so I don’t know much about applets yet.

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3. montyontherun says:

   May 28, 2011 at 8:44 pm

   Are you using Swing? Maybe you could try “webstart”. It works like a desktop app, but it takes care of all of the installation over the web.

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4. dertom says:

   May 29, 2011 at 4:38 am

   Easiest way would be to just create a “runnable jar” (right-click on project->export->runnable jar(or similar), choose there your project and it will create one big jar with all needed libraries. this you can start just by using java -jar yourjar.jar (jni-libraries are not included and need to be added seperately) ) This is by far the easiest way.

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