Java : Central Application

I'm currently developing multiple project management applications for my team, and distributing these as JARs, which is OK for now. But I was asked to make a central application to launch them.

Basically a small app, with a but开发者_高级运维ton for each app I already made, and when you click the button, it launches the corresponding app. I managed to do everything except one point. I include my JARs in the buildpath, then launch them by creating an instance of the Main class. This actually works, but when I want to close one window, it closes all of them....

Anyone got an idea on this ?

Thanks

You need to run the new application in a different VM by launching a new process. Something like this:

new ProcessBuilder("java", "-jar", "EXECUTABLE.JAR").start()

If Java is in your path.

Are launching using another Java app? If so, the window close event might trigger a System.exit(); Could you post some code?

Also consider using Webstart and providing the links to the applications in a web page. Thus users could open that page and Webstart would download and start the app.

Found it ! I had this in each app Main class (extending JFrame) :

this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

I changed it to :

this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);

Now this works.

Thanks for help