What's New in Excelsior JET 6.0
This release introduces Java SE 6 support and is fully tested and certified on Windows Vista and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, in addition to the previously supported platforms.
The Installation Toolkit now supports adding typical post-install actions to the Excelsior Installer GUI wizard.
Among other improvements are usability enhancements of the Excelsior JET toolchain and higher performance of the optimized Java applications.
Latest Java Version Support
Excelsior JET 6.0 has passed the official Java Compatibility Kit (JCK) test suite for Java SE 6 on a number of platforms and now supports the latest Java SE platform features. The microversion supported out-of-the-box is Java SE 6 Update 3.
J2SE 5.0 is still supported; the included microversion is J2SE 5.0 Update 13.
Operating System Support
Windows Vista and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are now supported. See System Requirements for details.
New features
We have implemented a handful of new features on customer requests:
- Post-install actions (Windows only)
- You may now add typical post-install actions to the last page of the Excelsior Installer wizard. Examples are launching the application just installed, viewing the readme file, restarting the computer, etc. etc.
- Version information for Windows executables
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You may now specify the standard version information on page Target of the JET Control Panel. The version information resource is then automatically created and bound to the optimized executable.
Moreover, the version information, such as company name and product version, is propagated to JetPackII and used as the default settings for Excelsior Installer setups.
- Difference tracker for updates
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When preparing update packages for the created installations, JetPackII now enables you to easily inspect and commit changes between the original installation and the respective files and directories on the disk. As a result, you can add the new and modified files and directories to the update package in a few mouse clicks.
The difference tracker is invoked automatically when you start preparing an update, or can be invoked manually through the main menu of JetPackII.
Other improvements
IDEA Plug-in Update
The IntelliJ IDEA plug-in is updated to work with IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.
(You may find the IDEA Integration plug-in in the ideplugins/IDEA subdirectory of your Excelsior JET installation.)
Higher performance
Delivered by more efficient memory management and better register allocation.
Customer issues addressed
Thanks to all Excelsior JET community members who gave us feedback on the previous versions of our product and participated in Excelsior JET 6.0 beta test campaign.
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