Making '.exe' file/application using JAVA

Question

Hi,
Is it possible to make an application(an exe file) using just Java, just as we in VB.If yes can you please give some idea how can we do that.
Thanks.....

Answer 1

To make a java application run from a click on an icon
you must create a Jar file as I've explained below:
Create a separate folder and place all the source code programs needed to run the application in it. You just need the ones with the .class extension. You don't need the ones with the .java extension.
Open up 'Notepad' and type in this line:
     Main-Class: your class that has the main method
You don't need the .class extension.
ex. If your main method is in a program called HelloWorld.class
type in :
Main-Class: HelloWorld
Make sure you hit the RETURN key at the end of the line. I forgot to do that which is why I spent four hours trying to get this to work!
Save this as: manifest.mf
and put in the same folder as above. Make sure it doesn't save as manifest.mf.txt
     Open MS-DOS.
CD change to the directory and folder you are in.
Type this in exactly as I have written:
jar cvfm0 myprogram.jar manifest.mf *.class
     This should put a Jar file in your folder. Just click on it and it should work.
Make sure the program doesn't need to take input from a command line, like DOS.
Otherwise it will do nothing. As long as your program creates a frame, window, button or something, it should work.
     To run the Jar file from DOS(for testing purposes) type:
java -jar myprogram.jar
     If you get an error stating that it can't find the main method class(like mine did), right click on the 'myprogram.jar' file that was created,
click on properties, then ZipMagic.
Open the 'manifest.mf' file and make sure
that 'Main-Class: yourprogramname' is in there.
     If you followed these directions you should be able to create an executable java file.
Below I've explained what the commands to create the Jar file mean.     
jar: means you are creating a java archive file which acts like a ZIP file
c: means create a new jar file
v: means verbose which tells DOS to show the action it is doing
f: means that the files to choose are going to be typed in by a user(you at the Dos prompt)
m: means to use the manifest file that you specify
0: means that the file won't be compressed
To make a JAR file you only need the cfm letters.