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The Windows executable installer is built using NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
), an open source system to create Windows installers.
The installer can, of course, be generated a Windows system but also on a Linux or Mac OS X system (for these two systems, a preliminary step is to compile the makensis command line utility that will be used to generate the installer).
Installer Generation layout
To generate the installer, a directory is created containing the server files.
Here's the layout this directory:
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Additional files such as the instances specific files (apacheds.conf, log4j.properties, server.xml) or the example ldif file (for loading example data into the default instance) are bundled into the installer and copied to their final location during the installation process.
Installer layout
The installer installs the following files on the target system:
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