have a look at launch4j it seems quite mature
BR
> Is there a state of the art way/tool of creating a windows exectuable
> EXE which exectutes java etc?
Why an EXE?
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#exe>
Why not JWS?
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#jws>

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> Is there a state of the art way/tool of creating a windows exectuable
> EXE which exectutes java etc?
>
> Similarly, can you create ELFs for Linux etc that can do that? Or should
> one write its own C program and compile that to the required architecture.
http://jsmooth.sourceforge.net/

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