How can I embed binary file (executable, to be exact) in Java application? Is there a way to read a file during compile time, or do I have to copy hexadecimal dump into source code of the application ?
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How can I embed binary file (executable, to be exact) in Java application? Is there a way to read a file during compile time, or do I have to copy hexadecimal dump into source code of the application ?
Jar files are zip files with extra meta-data. You can easily embed an exe-file in your jarfile directly.
You cannot easily have Windows execute the EXE-file inside your zip-file, but you can read it from your classpath resource and write it to a temporary file with an “.exe”-suffix, and then execute that.