I don't want native compiling !

Question

I'm sorry, I know that topic came up many, many, many times, but :
- I don't want an Java2exe thing that would give me a standalone app
- I do want my users to have JRE installed
- I even want them to have JMF installed
All I want is to know how to create those .exe (win32 binaries) just able to launch an embeded jar file and displaying an icon on it...
I've found many tricks that for, but as even Sun itself distributes .exe files (eg : JMStudio.exe) i imagine there is a "normal" or "simple" (even "standard") way to do so... Don't they just use their own tools to build their release ?
Is it the purpose of any InstallShield or something ? If so juste please let me know and I'll go deeper by myself.
Once again : I DON'T WANT A STANDALONE APP.
Thank you in advance
Julien

Answer 1

There are lots of programs that will give you and exe to launch the jar and I'm sure you've found some. They are just simple c++ programs which do pretty much the same as runtime.exec does in java. To change the icon you'll need to write your own c++ program or use and icon edit tool which will allow you to edit the icon embedded in the .exe file.