Creating Multiplatform Installers

Since the time when platform independent programming languages such as perl and Java came in the market, it has been a common trend in the market to build multiplatform products and solutions and hence the need for creating multiplatform installers. Macrovisions latest product InstallAnywhere 2008 Standard edition and enterprise editions have suport for creating multiplatform installers.

This means the installation engineer has just to create package and installation logic on any one platform and he can build it for variuous platfoms in one go. Operating systems such as SUN Solaris, IBM AIX, HP UX and Microsoft windows have their specific JRE which comes bundelled with the installers so that it not an issue while running the installers.

I will come up with more articles on how to create Multiplatform installers using InstallAnywhere, so stay tunned.