Software Packaging

There is no way from what you posted there that anyone can give you the very best answer possible. You will have to ELABORATE more on what you actually intend to accomplish in your bid to PACKAGE this software of yours. Give more detail so we will not have to spend the next 5 days trying to figure out what exactly it is you need help with. We tech people are not necessarily mind readers.

What is your development platform ,i mean ASP,ASP.Net,JSP etc

What exactly do you mean when you say it should auto run itself?? You mean the first page opens and then you input content to trigger events and what nots??

I believe in the case of web applications, you will need to have the server be on before you can run any application. I am not sure if there is a way around that at all. If you can write code to automatically turn on the server on click, then that is one thing but I am not sure I would go that way.
If your server is not already running,  it will be unable to handle the incoming request resulting from someone browsing your URL. Why would you want to turn it on and off on-demand anyway?

I don't know which server you are using but I know there must be a way of starting it from the command line.
Put the command in a batch file followed by a command to launch your browser with the appopriate url.

1- create a file with any name and a .bat extension e.g startapp.bat
2- Put the following in it

    a. command to launch your webserver e.g c:\apache\bin\apache.exe
    b. command to launch your browser e.g iexplore http:\\localhost:pathtoapp

Note that iexplore launches internet explorer and opens any url passed to it.

the bat file acts like a program executing the commands inside it. Run it to lauch your app.

but I believe there is a way of making your web sever run as a system service such it starts when the
operating system starts and stops when the operating system stops. If you can make it that way the
you don't have to worry about starting the server. All you need then is a web shortcut on your desktop
pointing to the url of your app.

Hope that helps

To be sure that the problem is from the iexplore line, try this

First make sure your web server is running

go to start menu -> run and enter the command  iexplore <url of you app>

Inernet explorer should start and go to the url you specified.

By the way, which webserver are you using ?

I've never used OFBiz server but I understand that it's some kind of application server.
Now you need to research a little and find out how to start OFBIz server from the command line.

Go to Menu->Accessories->command prompt

type in the command to see if it works.

Now open a new text file using notepad

Type in the command that starts OFBiz server
Type in the command to open your url in the browser like you did using the run menu

save the file with a .bat extension. Note that notepad appends .txt to whatever file you save.
To avoid that put the file name in quotation e.g "startapp.bat" to avoid getting startapp.bat.txt from notepad.

Now double click on the batch file to run the commands inside it.

Hope that helps.

I'm really very grateful forr your support. It really helped me to solving the proble m.



  ;)but I still have a problem which I would still need your help for

I do install the application folder manually(copy and paste )whenever i want to deploy it on a new system. Can you please tell me how I can do an auto installer, that runs whenever i insert my CD so that it will auto run and also request the directory where the folder should be installed 10x a  lot

Hi,
If you intend to start the server first, just put the line of bat command to start the server before that of the one to start explorer.
I would advice you try a server like Apache (it bundle in WAMP5). It's a free, powerful open source server and ussualy auto runs with your system.

To create a folder or manipulate folders on your system you can use so many scripts. If you want to use your bat file to do that do something like:-

if not exist "C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Desktop\Your Folder" mkdir "C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Desktop\Your Folder"

most programing languages support these thing . To learn more on bat file use your F1 key to launch windows help and run a search on .bat, or bat files or cmd file.

Since your topic says "software packaging" this is useful if you are packaging sofware
Installshield
It will help you organize, package your software and and then make it an executable file
"setup.exe"

One catch though it ain't free!

Try google, there might be free ones or even a torrent download for installshield

Pleeeeaaaseee, next time u are posting information try and confirm how updated the information is. This article was written in the year 2000, u can guess how current it is.

Good luck.

Have you made any progress so far?

hi,

u people are wonderful, i wish am able to make reasonable contribution like you.

please how do i go about it,where to start and how, please help