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Self-extracting Jar Creator
Simple utility that creates self-extracting jars.
Building
Run ./build.sh from the directory containing this readme.
The creator utility is produced as target/self-extracting-jar-creator-*.jar.
A copy of this file is also installed into eclipse-distributions/commons for
use by the STS build.
Creating a Self Extracting Jar
Run command java -jar self-extracing-jar-creator/target/self-extracing-jar-creator-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar <path-to-zip-you-want-to-repackage>.
The repackaged zip is created in the same directory as the original zip.
Unpacking a Self Extracting Jar
Double-click the self extracting jar (this works only if your OS environment is setup to recognize executable jars and run them
through a JVM, this seems to be the case in Windows if a JVM is installed). Alternatively, you can also unpack STS
from the commandline via java -jar <path-to-self-extracting-jar>.