To launch a java application in Windows environment

hello,
I need to distribute one stand alone application, that I made using NetBeans, for sale it.
I know that this is not a so simple problem, because delivering the program to one client you cannot simlpy say him to launch the jar file....
I saw that, in the Windows environment, program like eclipse or netBeans run thruogth an .exe file, that I think is a program that its purpose is to define the java environment for the application in the particular host operative environment .
Perhaps they are corporations like InstallShield (now Macrovision) that sale programs to solve this type of problems..., and I already used this type of programs to install some my
applications that I coded in languages different than java.
But before to look for one of them, I should like have more informations how this problem fits in java language, knowing that java is different to other languages because use JRE and have proper tools, how JWS and JNPL, that concern with this problem.
...Looking in the forum I had not much help..., but I saw that someone uses to write launchers program in different language, like C, as well I had not so much detailled instructions about how to do it.
In order to solve my problem I should like have, from some one that already made it, some general information about how he realized the commercial installation of java applications in the most used Operatve Systems (particullary Windows), and possibly to have links to web sites for good explanations, including advantages to buy apposite commercials installation programs too.
thank you very much
tonyMrsangelo

You can distribute it as an executable JAR so users will run it by double clicking. The would be required to have JRE installed.
You can distribute it online via WebStart. Users need JRE but it's easier to manage updates and distribution of new versions.
You can distribute it with AjaxSwing, a product that deploys Swing applications as AJAX websites so you don't need JRE at all.
You can create EXE files using many of the products available. Google for it and you'll get lots of hits.

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