Install4j JRE on Mac OS X is placed in .install4j/jre.bundle

Question

Even though the documentation says:

The JRE will always be distributed in the directory jre right below the installation root directory

When running my installer on a Mac OS X (Mavericks/Yosemite) which does not have a suitable JRE installed, the bundled JRE is placed in INSTALLATION_ROOT/.install4j/jre.bundle/ (Contents/Home/jre). This is forcing me to provide special handling when setting up the JRE configuration for my application. Is this a bug in install4 (5.1.15)?

Answer 1

Indeed, the documentation has a gap in this respect. It should say:

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A statically bundled JRE will always be distributed inside the installation root directory, on Windows and Linux/Unix in the directory jre and on Mac OS X in [content directory]/.install4j/jre.bundle.

The content directory is available from the installer runtime variable sys.contentDir. and resolves to the installation directory for folder media file types and Contents/Resources/app for archive media file types.

The actual location of the JRE installation directory is available from the installer runtime variable sys.preferredJre after the "Install files" action has run.

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