The IzPack Glassfish installer has just been updated. It now provides a deeper integration on Windows systems.

Shortcuts to asadmin, the update center and the uninstaller are now created in the start menu hierarchy:

The Windows Add / Remove Software settings box will also display an icon for the Glassfish installation:

Lastly, the installer was generated from a snapshot of the IzPack Subversion trunk.

Oh and I forgot one more thing: the Glassfish installer has been downloaded at least 1326 times in May

You can now nominate IzPack in the SourceForge 2008 Community Choice Awards in the category “Best Tool or Utility for Developers”:

We need your votes

BTW: IzPack is not a SourceForge project, but the awards are open to non-SourceForge projects.

Dennis Reil, a long-time IzPack developer, has published an article called Cross-Plattform-Installationen in the german journal Java Magazin.

Congratulations Dennis, and thanks for your work!

Craig Wickesser, an editor at the famous InfoQ, has just published an article about IzPack.

In the form of an interview, we spoke about IzPack, its history, its usefulness and where its future points to.

Do not forget that your input is worthwhile to us, so don’t forget to fill the IzPack survey: it takes just a few minutes to complete

I would be very pleased if you could fill the following (short) survey.

Be assured that there is no secret agenda behind this survey: IzPack is and will always be an opensource, community-driven project

Thank you very much!