tiny exe to launch a java application

Question

Some questions are like: How can I package my java app into an exe ? This is not what I am going to ask.

I can launch my application by doing the following:

java -jar myApp.jar 

That works perfectly (Assuming the machine has java 1.5.0 or >)

Now what I was thinking of having is a myApp.exe file.

What it would do is the following:

1. check if java is installed on the machine and its version. if java is not there it would prompt a dialog to say: "you need to install java to run myApp" exactly like eclipse.exe does if it does not find java. it would then terminate.
2. if java is there, then effectively run the command javaw -jar app.jar and spawn the process.

any idea ?

Answer 1

JSmooth does exactly that.