I&#39;m just starting to use [Maven][1], (evaluating it, really) and I need to be able to quickly generate a [JAR][2] file for my application and a directory with all the dependencies (for example, lib) so that I can deploy those two to be run in a stand-alone manner.  Generating the JAR file with the proper manifest is easy, but I do not know how to get Maven to copy the dependencies for the current project into a `lib` directory that I can deploy.  

Since this is for a stand-alone Java applications, I am *not* interested in deploying to a Maven repository, that is also fairly trivial, or at least easily googleable.

I&#39;ve found out how to do everything *except* copy the dependent JAR files into some specified directory.  This is the workflow I&#39;m looking for:

    $ mvn clean
    $ mvn package
    $ cp -r target/{lib,myApp.jar} installLocation

Then, running `myApp.jar` from `installLocation` as a JAR file should &quot;just work&quot; regardless of my `$CLASSPATH`.

To try and pre-empt some answers:

- I do have a Main-class: set, and it works fine.
- I&#39;ve also set the classpath in the MANIFEST.MF, and that works fine too.
- I&#39;ve found out how to use `&lt;classpathPrefix&gt;` and `&lt;classpathMavenRepositoryLayout&gt;` to make this work -- but only on my machine. (via: `&lt;classpathPrefix&gt;${settings.localRepository}&lt;/classpathPrefix&gt;`)

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Maven
  [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAR_file


Can Maven collect all the dependent JARs for a project to help with application deployment?

I am trying to write a cross-platform desktop app using web technologies (HTML5, CSS, and JS). I took a look at some frameworks and decided to use the Electron framework. 

I&#39;ve already done the app in Python, so I want to know if is possible to write cross-platform desktop applications using Python on the Electron framework?

Python on Electron framework

I have a simple question - what is Shadow Building? I&#39;ve seen it in Qt in Target Setup dialog, but don&#39;t know what it does or if I should use it.

It&#39;s also present in Projects tab, under General group.

Qt - &#39;Shadow Building&#39;?

I&#39;m currently mid-way through building a HTML5 application. 

I&#39;d really like to deploy this to desktop and I&#39;ve looked at solutions such as Sencha but have had no luck (I found Sencha disappointing and frustrating to work with). I&#39;d like cross platform compatibility and ease of deployment but I haven&#39;t found anything open-source or commercial that looks like it could do the job effectively.

Can anyone with some experience suggest a framework which might be suitable for packaging and deploying a HTML5 application on the desktop? An end requirement of this is that it will functional on both Mac OS and Windows - but for now Windows alone is great.

I&#39;ve considered looking into building a C# wrapper which will render the HTML5, but a solution may already exist that I&#39;ve overlooked.

I&#39;d appreciate any responses from someone with experience - the other questions relating to this on the SO don&#39;t outline the solution the &#39;asker&#39; went with.

HTML5 Desktop Wrapper/Framework

First, I&#39;m not interested in doing this professionally. I am a web developer, a coworker of mine recently left for Spotify and said he will be working mostly in JavaScript for the Spotify Desktop app. He said it uses &quot;Chrome frame&quot; and everything inside is done like a web app (HTML/JS/CSS).

As a web developer who never built anything for Desktop, this is great news. If I can use the technologies I already know and implement them inside some sort of a &quot;frame&quot; and still be able to build a windows or better yet cross platform app.

I know I didn&#39;t mention anything about the database, but even a simple hello world desktop app with web technologies would be great to get going.

So how does one go about this? Exactly what do I need/need to know?

How to develop Desktop Apps using HTML/CSS/JavaScript?

I am currently working on a standard Windows desktop application (standard meaning no fancy stuff: just buttons, text, sliders, etc.), and have decided to write a GUI framework on my own, after looking into some GUI frameworks and being repelled by all of them. Since it’s a hobby project, I am also willing to experiment, and decided to make the GUI immediate-mode, not retained-mode, as I really like the way it simplifies the code. Here is the question, though:

**What are the performance implications of using an immediate-mode GUI compared to a retained-mode GUI, when using it for a typical desktop application?**

I always hear that an IMGUI performs worse, since it has to redraw every frame (or, if it somehow caches, it still has to do the logic every frame). But of how much more are we talking here? Am I burning twice the CPU time? More? If I hypothetically ran 20&#160;IMGUI programs, would it max out the CPU (presuming I already optimized it)? I just want to know the ballpark and whether the tradeoffs are still viable in a non-game environment, where there is no need to redraw every frame.

There is also one more implication concerning latency that I don’t understand. In the [chapter discussing IMGUI][johno-chapter] in a [work-in-progress book][johno-book] by [Johannes Norneby][johno], it is explained as follows:

&gt; ### Frame shearing
&gt; 
&gt; One aspect of IMGUI to be aware of in the context of real-time
&gt; applications (constantly rendering new frames many times per second)
&gt; is that user interactions will always be in response to something that
&gt; was drawn on a previous frame. This is because the user interface must
&gt; be drawn at least once for the user to be aware that there are widgets
&gt; there to be interacted with. Most of the time this doesn’t cause any
&gt; problems if the frame rate is high enough, but it is something to be
&gt; aware of.

How is this any different in a retained-mode GUI? Does it mean that I have one more frame of input lag over a retained-mode GUI?

[johno-chapter]: http://www.johno.se/book/imgui.html
[johno-book]: http://www.johno.se/book/index.html
[johno]: http://www.johno.se/

What are the performance implications of using an immediate-mode GUI compared to a retained-mode GUI?

What are some solutions for distributing an HTML5 based desktop application?

I want to be able to distribute my HTML5 app as a standalone desktop application on Windows, OSX, and Linux. I would like for people to be able to double click my app icon shortcut to run my program. 

I don&#39;t want the browser window showing at all, just my app. Is this possible?

Solutions for distributing HTML5 applications as desktop applications?

Is it possible to develop a C++ program while using HTML and CSS for the user interface? I know about programming with Javascript using a Webkit container, but I am really interested in C++ development.

I felt in love with C# WPF when I developed under Windows, but now I moved to Linux and I haven&#39;t found a good tool for using markup for interfaces. For this, I would like to mix HTML and CSS, which are very lightweight and easy to use, with C++ code, with something like WPF.

Oh, one more thing: I&#39;m looking for desktop development, not web.

How to build native C++ apps with HTML/CSS UI?

I&#39;ve searched a bit, but I can&#39;t find an existing tool for this.

I have a Node.js web server that is designed to run on your own computer that does some snazzy things for you.  It would be pretty awesome if I could double click `MySnazzyThing.app` instead of installing Node.js, and npm and running `node mysnazzyapp.js` on the command line.

The `.app` executable would spool up the Node.js server and open a simple native [WebKit][1] window which would show what would normally be on `localhost:3000` if I were running on the command line.

This native application could then, say, be distributed through the Mac [App&amp;nbsp;Store][2].  And bam, a Node.js desktop application.

Does any such tool exist? Or are there any technical reasons that this wouldn&#39;t work as I imagine it?

  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit
  [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS/iPadOS)




Packaging a Node.js web application as a normal desktop application

Been looking around on the web for one of these, but I&#39;m only finding node.js/ruby hosted implementations.

I&#39;m keen to have a DynamoDB app, something like that of the navicat ilk that comes with an msi installer to get running quickly.

Maybe there&#39;s a valid reason as to why one of these doesn&#39;t exist yet?

Amazon AWS DynamoDB Desktop Client - Does one exist?

Microsoft announced .NET Core 3 comes with WPF and Windows Forms. So can I create a desktop application for Linux or Mac using .NET Core 3?

Can WPF applications be run in Linux or Mac with .Net Core 3?

Does anybody know which language or technology was used to develop the Spotify desktop application?
It&#39;s stable, good-looking and lightweight.

What language or technology was used to develop the Spotify desktop application?

I want to generate a unique `.exe` file to execute the app or a `.msi` to install the application. How to do that?

How to deploy an Electron app as an executable or installable in Windows?

I&#39;ve been learning how to create applications in [Electron][1] and I need help compiling a simple project to a Windows executable. The program is a clone from this Github repo: [https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start][2]. On the repo readme it shows how to run the program:

    # Clone this repository
    git clone https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start
    # Go into the repository
    cd electron-quick-start
    # Install dependencies
    npm install
    # Run the app
    npm start

This works fine, but I can&#39;t figure out how to simply compile it. I&#39;ve looked all over google, you would think that something as simple as deploying an application would be well known information. 

  [1]: http://electron.atom.io/
  [2]: https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start

How To Compile An Electron Application To A .exe

I just started using ELMAH and am a fan. My team supports a large number of web applications and I&#39;m particularly excited that ELMAH lets us save exceptions from each application to the same MS SQL database table.

We also support a few console, DLL and desktop applications.  Is it possible to use the ELMAH DLL to log exceptions in these apps to that same location?

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