Questions and Exercises: Self-Contained Applications
Questions
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Which of the following items is not an advantage of self-contained applications?
- Users install the application with an installer that is familiar to them.
- The application runs as a native application.
- The application requires less space on a user's machine.
- You control the version of the JRE that is used by the application.
- The application does not require a browser to run.
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True or False: MIME type must always be used to set up a file association.
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What elements are used to identify the entry points for self-contained applications in the
<fx:deploy>
Ant task?
Exercises
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Write the
<fx:deploy>
Ant task to generate a Windows MSI bundle for a simple application named My Sample App. The JAR file for the application is in thedist
directory, the main class issamples.MyApp
, and output files are to be written to the current directory. -
Enhance the code from the previous exercise to create bundles for all Windows installers and define a file association for text files.