Tag: Installation Anywhere

Apple’s Application Notarization for macOS

If you are a software vendor developing apps for Apple’s macOS, you may be well versed with the processes involved with distributing to App Store. However, if you are among those who don’t want to publish your apps to the store and prefer a sideloading approach, by this time, you most likely realize, well, it’s not very easy. You can’t blame Apple for this. Apple prefers integrity of apps running on macOS over ease of deployment…

June 25, 2020 Venkat Ram Donga

New Features Now Available in InstallAnywhere 2020

We are pleased to announce that InstallAnywhere 2020 is now available. Let’s take a sneak peak on what’s new. Support for macOS app notarization Apple is going to make application notarization mandatory for 3rd party apps starting January 2020 (click here for more details). This is going to affect Mac versions 10.14.5 and above including the latest macOS Catalina. With the latest release of InstallAnywhere, you can add app notarization support to…

October 10, 2019 Venkat Ram Donga

Ready for Java 11 – InstallAnywhere 2018 SP1

We are excited to announce InstallAnywhere 2018 SP1 with some cool new features and enhancements. Let’s take a deep dive into the changes. Support for Java 11 Java 11 is now official and InstallAnywhe…

December 4, 2018 Venkat Ram Donga

Best Practice: Open Source Risk Management

Application producers have made great strides over the years improving quality, efficiency, and time to market. Product teams today are more agile and productive than ever before. These teams continually learn which processes work best and integrate these practices into the software product lifecycle. As software development has evolved, so too has the use of open source software (OSS). Research has revealed that more than 50% of the code found i…

September 5, 2017 Revenera

Get Started with Docker on Windows Server 2016

The Docker open platform allows developers and system administrators build, ship, and run distributed applications within a containerized format. Microsoft has added support for containers as a featu…

February 8, 2017 Revenera

Docker: Three Basics

Facing a complex world of micro-services, libraries, infrastructure and more? Docker technology offers development teams a way to simplify complicated scaling and deployment. To get started, check out these basics. Basic #1: What is Docker?It offers an open platform to build, ship and run distributed applications as containers, including:Application, binaries and libraries in containers A single OS for each application A lightweight structure f…

July 19, 2016 Revenera

Set an InstallAnywhere Variable from within Custom Code

Often times, custom code will need to pass an InstallAnywhere variable back in to the running installer. It is possible to set InstallAnywhere variables from within custom code by using the setVariable(String varName, Object value) method where ‘varName’ is the full variable name such as “$USER_INSTALL_DIR$” and value is an object containing the value to be stored within the InstallAnywhere variable. All InstallAnywhere variables are stored as st…

November 4, 2015 Revenera