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:
- the installer is able to bootstrap the update center (even behind a proxy)
- Glassfish v3 can be started after having been installed (amazingly fast!)
- 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.
You can grab 2 installers:
I named the second one “bad installer” as it uses a hardcore Pack200 compression. The resulting installer is only 15M, but Glassfish fails to start properly. I make it available for download as I’m interested in knowing where the problem is. Is Apache Felix or another component unhappy with Pack200?
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).