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IzPack-based installer for GlassFish v3 Prelude

Update (2008-11-08): (yes, again!) the 'exec-admin' installer is now expected to work under XP/Vista.

Update (2008-11-08): the version that attempts to run as an administrator does not work well on XP/Vista. It works fine on any other platform (Linux, OS X, ...). A fix will appear soon.

As promised yesterday, I have released an updated installer for GlassFish v3 Prelude!

This installer must be considered as beta quality.

It is based on a very bleeding-edge build of IzPack from the Subversion trunk of the project. Especially, there is a version that attempts to elevate its permissions to those of an administrator. This feature went into the IzPack SVN trunk yesterday, so this will be a good occasion to spot issues.

Here are the links to the installers:

• http://dist.codehaus.org/izpack/showcases/glassfish-v3-prelude-install.jar (you may have to launch it as an administrator, especially on Windows Vista)
• http://dist.codehaus.org/izpack/showcases/glassfish-v3-prelude-install-exec-admin.jar (it will try to launch as an administrator / this is highly experimental)

Thanks a lot for testing and reporting me any issue! I will take into account all your feedback to improve the GlassFish v3 Prelude installers very soon.

By-the-way there is still the GlassFish v2 UR2 installer, available for download and rock-solid. We've deployed it successfully in my University for students labs, both on Windows XP and CentOS 5.

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