Creating Basic Installers
InstallAnywhere 2020 SP2
This section provides procedures and suggestions about common situations when using InstallAnywhere to build a basic installer.
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Includes background information on the file for an InstallAnywhere project; also explains how to create new projects and open existing projects. |
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Describes how to define basic information for your installer, including how to include a software identification tag for your product. |
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Describes various tasks and best practices for managing files, components, features and other items in your InstallAnywhere projects. Also discusses how to work with source paths instead of hard-coded paths, which is especially helpful in team development environments. |
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Explains how to schedule the panels that are displayed and the actions that are launched at run time. |
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Defining Rules and Rule Expressions that Evaluate Conditions on Target Systems |
Describes how to define rules for InstallAnywhere installers, specific actions, and groups of actions. |
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Describes how to manage SQL databases and deploy Web applications to application servers. |
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Explains how to implement Maintenance Mode in an installer so that end users are able to add or remove features to previously installed products as well as repair broken installations. |
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Explains how to enable rollback behavior to avoid application corruption if an end user cancels an installation before it is completed or if an installation encounters a fatal error. |
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Explains how to build and test installers. |
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Discusses how to download, install (for the InstallAnywhere IDE), and bundle VM packs. |
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Describes the process of creating a LaunchAnywhere launcher for any Java software that your installer deploys. |
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Explains how to launch another installer from your installer. |
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Describes the use of source code control software with InstallAnywhere. |
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