Installaling Swing Application

Dear friends,,,,
I have a huge Swing application which runs using JSW and Firebird database.
I Need to, somehow, create an installation program (in a CD) to set it working in clients machine.
The tasks of this program would be:
- to install the Firebird database
- do create some directories and copy some files (3 files)
- to access an web link to start the system using JSW
Would anybody have any idea how (and with what) I could do that?
PS.
All my clients machines are Windows
Appreciate any help
Thanks

Try NSIS:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/

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In swing application ,i have scroll bar inside a JFrame.I want to have mousewheel action in my swing application to support scrolling.
any idea ???
Thanks

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Check it in the later releases of JDK.

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Hi All...
I want to implement the themes object in my swing application,How ,where to start and move that functionality,If anybody use this functionality in your program experience can u share with me.
Than to Advance
ARjun...

Hi Kuldeep Chitrakar
I can do that in web intelligence. dont want that
I am replicating some of the sample report of SQL Servers in BusinessObjects XI R3.1.
One of the SQL Sever's report is of product catalogue type that gives complete information like name, category, description along with the products image etc... for each of the products.
I am trying to replicate the above said SQL Server report in Business objects XI R3.1. I am facing problem in bringing the image in to my BO report. The image resides in a table and its datatype is of varbinary(max). I don't know the exact matching while creating an object in the uiverse designer.
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How to install Adobe Application Manager?

How to install Adobe Application Manager? I downloaded it, but can't install.
Just purchased the CC for photographers. Have been using Photoshop since version 3.
I have been studying your support docs for several days and have no business messing around with something called, .gz files and installation logs. Totally unsuccessful "Updating" my CS6 or CS6 bridge or Extension Manager or the Adobe Support Advisor by the CC Desktop.
Have no Photoshop CS6 because I followed your CC support instructions.
Uninstalled my CS6 today so I can finish a job tomorrow. Bad decision on my part because I can't reinstall it and am unable to correct
this problem.
I was able to use CC to update LR, but am absolutely too afraid to touch it now.
I have been waiting inline for Chat also, but the numbers ahead of me are going up.
If someone in this Community forum can help me, it would be fabulous.
Thanks very much.

Uninstalled Creative Cloud.
Downloaded it again - 4th time.
Deleted a AAMDetect file from the Library/Internet Plug-ins
Downloaded and installed Adobe App Manager and an icon for it is on my Desktop
Installed Creative Cloud.
OK.
Now how do get my Photoshop CS6 back before I download Photoshop CC?
CS6 is not listed in the available Apps in the CC Desktop.
Support wait time right now is 2 hours by phone.
After sitting on Chat yesterday only to see the people "waiting ahead of me" go from 17 to 18, I gave up.
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