Hi David,

although I don't fully understand this anti-Java feedback (after all, Java is very much an industry standard and many programs require it), I think there is a way to do exactly what you want.

A while ago I played around with Excelsior JET (http://www.excelsiorjet.com/) and compiling BaseX worked like a charm. One nice thing is that the BaseX GUI starts up much faster and it should basically do what you wrote here as requirement.

Cheers,
Dirk

On 11/08/2014 09:38 PM, David Leigh wrote:
> I used BaseX in a Windows-only project a couple of years ago (ver 6.5 or
> some such thing).  I found it to be excellent for rapid text queries.
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> I'm planning on re-writing the application but would like it to be
> cross-platform and ideally in native binaries.  I've had some "anti-Java"
> feedback that makes me want to see if there is a way to package/compile
> BaseX so that the Java is all "self-contained" in an executable(s) with no
> other dependencies.  I think of how I understand sqlite to work and wonder
> if BaseX can be packaged in the same way.  I see in the documentation that
> Maven is mentioned but I'm not really sure if that is what I'm looking for
> since I'm not familiar with Maven.
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> I'm at the edges of my understanding of how a Java-based program can be
> packaged so please be gentle with my inexperience and ignorance.
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> I guess the bottom line is that I'd like someone to be able to install my
> application on Windows, Linux or Mac without having to think about if they
> have Java installed on their machine or what version it is or anything.   I
> also don't want to force someone to install Java on their machine if they
> specifically don't want to.  Is that possible with BaseX?
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> Thank you so much!
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>

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