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Which (commercial or free) installer tool would you recommend to replace InstallAnywhere as the installer for a Java EE application? What do you specifically like about it, and what are its downsides? Some requirements: Must support running custom Java code as part of installation procedure Must support Windows, including latest 64-bit versions like Windows Server 2008; support for other target operating systems is a plus Must be able to install a bundled application server (such as Resin or Tomcat ) as a service on Windows Must support basic stuff like copying and moving files around, editing configuration files, extracting ZIPs, etc. (Must support bundling a specific version of JRE; at the very least by including a ZIP to be extracted) Edit: a few more points: Preferably does not depend on a preinstalled JRE (or any other 3rd party runtime environment or library) on target machine; in other words, can produce an independent Windows .exe (or .msi) The tool should preferably be cross-platform so that installer development can be done on Linux, Windows, or Mac. Should preferably have a decent GUI for putting the installer together. Once that is done, however, it must be possible to skip the GUI and make installer building part of automated build process.

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