NSIS - How to run Java Application In NSIS?

Question

I wanna run a java application through NSIS. My java program is called PropertiesReader.java which reads a property from a .config file.How can I do this? Also the output of java program (which in this case is the property value) is stored in some variable say property_value in java program. How can i access back the value of this variable in NSIS script?

Answer 1

From the NSIS srcipt, you can run Exec or ExecWait to run the "java" and pass the PropertiesReader.class as parameter to it. Your java program can write the property_value to a file which you can read back from the script.

Here is a link that has a heading "NSIS and Java". You can check that out. Just make sure that the PropertiesReader.class file is in the classpath.