B4J Question Autonomous Packages (put several apps in one installation)

zed said:

No, you can't simply put multiple projects in the same folder generated by B4J Packager.
However, you can manually organize a shared folder with a shared JRE and several .jar files, and then create your own scripts/installers.

Install a common JRE (or JDK) on the target machine.
Then, distribute only the .jar files for your different applications, without repeating the runtime.
Each application can be launched with a script that calls `java -jar MyAppli.jar`.

But be careful, all your applications must be compatible with the same version of Java.
If an application uses specific native libraries, you must include them in its folder (AppX/).

Alternatively, you can create a single installer (Inno Setup, NSIS, etc.) that copies this structure to the target machine.

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