InstallAnywhere

InstallAnywhere saves you time and effort by using a new search algorithm to automatically determine if a specific Java Runtime Environment is already installed on a target machine.

You can also customize your installer to use the first Java Virtual Machine (JVM) it locates on a system, conduct a JVM search based on a property file, give the end user the option of specifying the JVM to use, and more.

In a new approach to handling duplicate files, InstallAnywhere now detects source duplication at a file level and only bundles one copy of the source.

By bundling only one copy, InstallAnywhere significantly reduces the footprint of your installations, and that cuts download time for end users as well as CD/DVD costs for larger installations.

InstallAnywhere now includes the ability to change the position, font, and color settings for labels and fields in end-user installation panels.

It gives you even tighter customization control over the look and feel of your installations, so they can better meet your end users’ needs and your company’s brand requirements.

InstallAnywhere gives you even more flexibility in designing installations with new and expanded APIs.

A new project automation API gives you the power to define, edit, or build a project via a Java API. A new built-in panel API exposes installer UI controls such as buttons, choice groups, choosers, labels, and text fields for more extensibility. Both these APIs are only in InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition.

Also, a new product registry API improves runtime automation possibilities by retrieving detailed product information such as version, date installed, and product components. This API is available in both InstallAnywhere Enterprise and Standard Editions.

You can now use InstallAnywhere to customize your installer’s splash screen with a localized title, an image, instructions, or other information.

It gives your greater customization control for your localized installations. Your installer can automatically select each end user’s native language based on their system settings or a command-line action and present the appropriate localized content.

InstallAnywhere saves you significant time and effort by helping you create a single installation project that works for each of the platforms you target.

InstallAnywhere’s Project Wizard walks you through the simple task of building an installation project. Then simply check off the platforms you wish to target and InstallAnywhere does the rest. It’s that easy.

InstallAnywhere makes installing and running multiplatform software as easy as installing and running platform-specific software.

InstallAnywhere supports platform-specific installation destinations (Windows directory, /usr/local/bin, Mac OS X Dock, etc.), is compliant with the requirements of the "Designed for Windows XP and Vista" and "Built for Mac OS X" certifications, and integrates seamlessly with Linux RPM and the Windows Service manager.

Platforms include:

• Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit x86)
• Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows XP, 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit x86, Itanium 2, AMD-64)
• Windows 2000, NT (32-bit x86)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (x86, Itanium 2 and AMD-64)
• SUSE Linux 9 and 10 (x86 and PowerPC)
• Linux on zSeries
• Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 (Intel and PowerPC)
• Solaris 9 and 10 (SPARC, x86 and AMD-64)
• HP-UX 11i (Itanium 2 & PA-RISC)
• FreeBSD
• AIX 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1 (Power/PowerPC)
• i5/OS on System i - V5R3 V5R4
• Other Linux and Unix platforms (POSIX-compliant shell required)

InstallAnywhere provides the ability to run installations in silent, console, or full graphical mode, according to the desire of the developer and the needs of the system. InstallAnywhere provides a superior end-user experience with features such as:

• A Swing-based UI that provides unlimited panel customization and branding capabilities
• Installations that automatically assume the look and feel of the target platform
• Automatic installation label generation -GIF and JPEG image support
• PNG image transparency support -Preview of all aspects of GUI installation at authoring time
• A complete graphic library

InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition supports silent, console, and full graphical mode installers. The Standard Edition only supports graphical mode.

InstallAnywhere's IDE, the integrated developer environment, including the six-step Project Wizard and the Advanced Designer, is available in localized language versions. Developers who speak English, French, German, and Japanese can author multiplatform installations using their native language.

These installations support the full range of platforms and all 31 target installation languages supported by InstallAnywhere.

InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition comes with pre-translated installation dialog panels in 31 languages, making it easy to localize your installations.

It supports the following 31 local languages: Arabic, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Canadian French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.
 
InstallAnywhere Standard Edition supports the following 9 languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Merge Modules and Templates speed development of installations by creating standard re-usable components that are easily integrated with new projects. Merge Modules deliver reusability from project to project, within development teams, across the enterprise, or from third-party providers. Templates are used to create uniform looks and feels for your installation projects and are ideal for companies with multiple software products.

InstallAnywhere's intuitive and well-designed integrated development interface allows you to build installations quickly and efficiently. Create a basic installation with the six-step Project Wizard or use the Advanced Designer IDE's powerful graphical interface to build customized installations that control every facet of the deployment process. The folder view shows you exactly what will be installed to each destination on your end-user's system. InstallAnywhere fully supports dragging and dropping of files from the developer's system, and contextual right-click menus provide instant access to common functionality.

Not only does InstallAnywhere have the industry's broadest platform support, it has all of the platform-specific functionality that you'll ever need. InstallAnywhere reads and sets system environment variables, creates aliases, shortcuts, and links, executes platform-specific executables and shell commands, installs to system-specific locations (such as the Windows Start Menu or the Mac OS X Dock), and registers and installs OS-dependent libraries (such as DLLs and shared libraries). On Windows, InstallAnywhere manages Windows Services and reads and writes from the registry. And with Linux RPM integration, installations function with the operating system's package management.

InstallAnywhere has a series of features that make collaboration a breeze, and saves development teams a lot of time. Merge Modules and Templates speed development of installations by creating standard re-usable components that are easily integrated with new projects. Merge Modules deliver reusability from project to project, within development teams, across the enterprise, or from third-party providers. Templates are used to create uniform looks and feels for your installation projects and are ideal for companies with multiple software products. 

InstallAnywhere now supports InstallAnywhere Collaboration -- an Eclipse plug-in for application developers that saves time and helps improve communication among the development team by letting team-members share and consolidate work.

Increase sales, by expanding your target audience.  Section 508-compliant installations allow you to sell to Federal Agencies.  This feature also lets you provide enhanced user experience to your disabled customers.

InstallAnywhere's IDE, the integrated developer environment, including the six-step Project Wizard and the Advanced Designer, is available in localized language versions. Developers who speak English, French, German, and Japanese can author multiplatform installations using their native language.

These installations support the full range of platforms and all 31 target installation languages supported by InstallAnywhere.

InstallAnywhere has a series of features that make collaboration a breeze, and saves development teams a lot of time. Merge Modules and Templates speed development of installations by creating standard re-usable components that are easily integrated with new projects. Merge Modules deliver reusability from project to project, within development teams, across the enterprise, or from third-party providers. Templates are used to create uniform looks and feels for your installation projects and are ideal for companies with multiple software products. 

InstallAnywhere now supports InstallAnywhere Collaboration -- an Eclipse plug-in for application developers that saves time and helps improve communication among the development team by letting team-members share and consolidate work.

Save QA testing time and increase installation reliability by running Java code to automatically verify the quality of your installations.

Reference Developer Installation Manifest (DIM) files created with the InstallAnywhere Collaboration module. With this plug-in for Eclipse, you can automatically capture and communicate important installation requirements from the developer to the installation author.  Also, run unit tests to ensure that the DIMs you create configure the target system as required by your product.

This feature lets you eliminate possible miscommunication when gathering configuration requirements from development.  Reduce installation development time by eliminating manual entry of configuration requirements for your product.

The new services layer APIs (previously available only in InstallShield MultiPlatform) allow you to customize your installation beyond the standard actions and panels as well as add advanced functionality to your custom code actions.

These API provide increased flexibility to your installation.  For instance, you can use the service layer to manipulate files, query the system registry, and determine if the end-user has administrative privileges.

InstallAnywhere gives you even more flexibility in designing installations with new and expanded APIs.

A new project automation API gives you the power to define, edit, or build a project via a Java API. A new built-in panel API exposes installer UI controls such as buttons, choice groups, choosers, labels, and text fields for more extensibility. Both these APIs are only in InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition.

Also, a new product registry API improves runtime automation possibilities by retrieving detailed product information such as version, date installed, and product components. This API is available in both InstallAnywhere Enterprise and Standard Editions.

InstallAnywhere introduces a revolutionary way to design your installations with the introduction of Action Groups. This is by far the most popular feature request Flexera Software has received from existing customers. Action Groups provide the ability to logically group a set of actions or panels in Pre-Install, Post-Install, Pre-Uninstall and Post-Uninstall. Rules applied to the Action Group affect all the actions or panels it contains. Actions Groups make InstallAnywhere projects more manageable and easier to understand. Available in InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition only.

InstallAnywhere provides the ability to run installations in silent, console, or full graphical mode, according to the desire of the developer and the needs of the system. InstallAnywhere provides a superior end-user experience with features such as:

• A Swing-based UI that provides unlimited panel customization and branding capabilities
• Installations that automatically assume the look and feel of the target platform
• Automatic installation label generation -GIF and JPEG image support
• PNG image transparency support -Preview of all aspects of GUI installation at authoring time
• A complete graphic library

InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition supports silent, console, and full graphical mode installers. The Standard Edition only supports graphical mode.

InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition comes with pre-translated installation dialog panels in 31 languages, making it easy to localize your installations.

It supports the following 31 local languages: Arabic, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Canadian French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.
 
InstallAnywhere Standard Edition supports the following 9 languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Swedish.

You can now use InstallAnywhere to customize your installer’s splash screen with a localized title, an image, instructions, or other information.

It gives your greater customization control for your localized installations. Your installer can automatically select each end user’s native language based on their system settings or a command-line action and present the appropriate localized content.

Increase sales, by expanding your target audience.  Section 508-compliant installations allow you to sell to Federal Agencies.  This feature also lets you provide enhanced user experience to your disabled customers.

InstallAnywhere saves you significant time and effort by helping you create a single installation project that works for each of the platforms you target.

InstallAnywhere’s Project Wizard walks you through the simple task of building an installation project. Then simply check off the platforms you wish to target and InstallAnywhere does the rest. It’s that easy.

Merge Modules and Templates speed development of installations by creating standard re-usable components that are easily integrated with new projects. Merge Modules deliver reusability from project to project, within development teams, across the enterprise, or from third-party providers. Templates are used to create uniform looks and feels for your installation projects and are ideal for companies with multiple software products.

InstallAnywhere's intuitive and well-designed integrated development interface allows you to build installations quickly and efficiently. Create a basic installation with the six-step Project Wizard or use the Advanced Designer IDE's powerful graphical interface to build customized installations that control every facet of the deployment process. The folder view shows you exactly what will be installed to each destination on your end-user's system. InstallAnywhere fully supports dragging and dropping of files from the developer's system, and contextual right-click menus provide instant access to common functionality.

InstallAnywhere introduces the concept of cross-product dependencies. Dependencies allow for the conditional installation of specific software applications based on the current system configuration. This is essential for flexible suite installations, and ensures that an application will work as designed when installed.

Installing software on Windows Vista can be frustrating now that Microsoft has added its User Account Control (UAC) functionality. End users are often forced to deal with multiple UAC prompts seeking to verify credentials for a valid administrator account before launching a task that requires full administrator access, which can spoil the overall installation experience.

For your installations that target Windows Vista, InstallAnywhere includes support for User Account Control (UAC), letting you eliminate unnecessary UAC prompts. It lets you create installations that handle UAC authorization requests in a user-friendly manner, requesting elevated privileges required for all installations just once, and using those privileges throughout the installation.

InstallAnywhere makes installing and running multiplatform software as easy as installing and running platform-specific software.

InstallAnywhere supports platform-specific installation destinations (Windows directory, /usr/local/bin, Mac OS X Dock, etc.), is compliant with the requirements of the "Designed for Windows XP and Vista" and "Built for Mac OS X" certifications, and integrates seamlessly with Linux RPM and the Windows Service manager.

Platforms include:

• Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit x86)
• Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows XP, 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit x86, Itanium 2, AMD-64)
• Windows 2000, NT (32-bit x86)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (x86, Itanium 2 and AMD-64)
• SUSE Linux 9 and 10 (x86 and PowerPC)
• Linux on zSeries
• Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 (Intel and PowerPC)
• Solaris 9 and 10 (SPARC, x86 and AMD-64)
• HP-UX 11i (Itanium 2 & PA-RISC)
• FreeBSD
• AIX 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1 (Power/PowerPC)
• i5/OS on System i - V5R3 V5R4
• Other Linux and Unix platforms (POSIX-compliant shell required)

Not only does InstallAnywhere have the industry's broadest platform support, it has all of the platform-specific functionality that you'll ever need. InstallAnywhere reads and sets system environment variables, creates aliases, shortcuts, and links, executes platform-specific executables and shell commands, installs to system-specific locations (such as the Windows Start Menu or the Mac OS X Dock), and registers and installs OS-dependent libraries (such as DLLs and shared libraries). On Windows, InstallAnywhere manages Windows Services and reads and writes from the registry. And with Linux RPM integration, installations function with the operating system's package management.

Provide additional flexibility for your 64-bit applications with 64-bit support.  You can use this feature to install applications that require both 32- and 64-bit support.

Windows Server 2008 and 2003 (AMD-64, Itanium 2, and Intel), Vista, XP, 2000, NT, Me, 98, and compliant with "Designed for Windows Vista and XP" requirements.

Exert even tighter control over your installations with the ability to set alternate locations for VM packs and plugins.

InstallAnywhere makes it easy to deploy Web applications and support SaaS by adding EAR/WAR files to a J2EE container. Simply provide state, model, and declarative data – no scripting is needed.

InstallAnywhere supports the following application servers: Geronimo 1.1.1 or newer; WebSphere 6.1; JBoss 4.0.5 or newer; Web Logic 10.0; Tomcat 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0; Sun Application Server 9; and Resin 3.1.n.

You can now bundle installation steps for application deployment directly in your installations by enabling SQL scripts or instructions to run within your setups, instead of as an external script.

InstallAnywhere supports the following database servers: MySQL (JDBC drivers not included); Oracle 10.2.0.1, 10.2.0.2, and 10.2.0.3; MS SQL Server 6.5, 7.0, 2000, and 2005; DB2 9.n; Interbase 2007; Firebird 1.0.n, 1.5, and 2.0; PostgreSQL 7.0-8.2; and Sybase ASE 10, 11, 12, and 15.

With InstallAnywhere, components can be shared between different applications. A component will be installed if it doesn't already exist on the system, however if the component has already been installed by another application it is registered as shared. The uninstaller will not remove a component if it is still needed by another application. This is essential if you are installing a suite of applications that share required resources. You can even share a Java Virtual Machine between applications. Available in InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition only.

Improve the security of your installations by encrypting or hiding project variables, such as install scripts and logs, response files, and installer debug output. Encrypted variables are only decrypted at installation runtime, better protecting your information.

InstallAnywhere gives you the option of encrypting variables using either the InstallAnywhere-native encryption or JCE (Java Cryptology Extension) encryption.

Resolve installation variables at assignment, giving you an even higher level of control over your installations.

Debug your installation faster and more accurately with detailed status on return codes. By default, an installation process returns zero (0) to the environment if it was successful and a nonzero value if it was not. The possible exit codes returned during an installation are defined in the user guide.

End users no longer have to manually create response files for running silent installations. For multiple installations that require the same configuration end users simply need to provide user input once to generate a response file.  The file is automatically used for subsequent installations.

This feature also lets end users filter out secure information, such as passwords.

You can now specify how large you'd like your installation dialogs to be.  You can also preview the installation frame size within the designer. Improve your end users -- installation experience by providing dialogs sized to your fit your content -- no more tedious scrolling.

Use this panel to gather user input with the use of text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, and other standard HTML objects. Save time creating custom formatted panels in standard HTML versus writing lengthy custom code in Java.

You can now control the advancement of the progress bar with finer granularity to give your customer a better understanding of where they are during the installation.  Also avoid long progress bar pauses by adjusting the progress bar behavior--enhancing the end-user experience.

You can customize the look and feel of the installation more than ever before. InstallAnywhere gives you more fine grain control of the colors you want to use in your installation. This enables you the ability to provide an even better looking end-user experience to your customers. Available in InstallAnywhere Enterprise edition only.

InstallAnywhere now includes the ability to change the position, font, and color settings for labels and fields in end-user installation panels.

It gives you even tighter customization control over the look and feel of your installations, so they can better meet your end users’ needs and your company’s brand requirements.

The InstallAnywhere Advanced Designer has an intuitive, graphical interface, which allows developers to manage all aspects of their installer project. All the features of InstallAnywhere are available in this easy-to-use, integrated development environment.

With the Advanced Designer developers have precise control over all the design options of an installation project.

• Assign files and actions to feature sets
• Add rules to determine which files are installed where dependent on the target platform
• Set the look and feel for the installer by adding background images, billboards, and other graphical components
• Determine panels and actions for Pre-Install, Post-Install, Pre-Uninstall and Post-Uninstall
• Manage install sets, features, components, and merge modules
• Manage file installation tree and install time actions
• Manage build settings, including bundling of a Java Virtual Machine

You can use InstallAnywhere to bundle multiple VM instances for each platform you target, making your installations more flexible. It enables you to create and delete Build Targets on the Build Targets tab. In addition, you can now create more than one Build Target per platform.

For example, from a single installation project you can build for Windows with no VM, Windows with an IBM VM, and Windows with a Sun VM.

InstallAnywhere includes a “Hosts” view that enables you to deploy software on application and database servers.

It provides support for installations that requires different components to be installed to different servers, as well as support for Web applications and SaaS (Software as a Service) deployments.

InstallAnywhere complies with SCM's like Perforce and Clearcase better than ever. You can now easily check both InstallAnywhere, InstallAnywhere project files, and its resources into source control. You no longer need to check InstallAnywhere out of source control to run builds. This helps you focus on creating installations instead of focusing on how to incorporate InstallAnywhere into your build process.

Security is a concern for every software developer. InstallAnywhere introduces the ability to digitally sign Windows installations. Digital signatures give end users the added security that comes with knowing that an installation came from a trusted source. It also prevents your customer from seeing a "Unknown Publisher" warning when they launch installations on Windows XP Service Pack 2.

With InstallAnywhere, you can now specify the exact version of the Java Virtual Machine that the installation or LaunchAnywhere will run against. This is extremely helpful for developers who do not want to bundle a Java Virtual Machine with their application but still want the application to run against a particular Virtual Machine.

InstallAnywhere saves you time and effort by using a new search algorithm to automatically determine if a specific Java Runtime Environment is already installed on a target machine.

You can also customize your installer to use the first Java Virtual Machine (JVM) it locates on a system, conduct a JVM search based on a property file, give the end user the option of specifying the JVM to use, and more.

Improve your software’s installation experience by notifying users that the installation is finished with the new Install Complete Panel.

Merge Modules now have the ability to pass variables back to the master installation, and allows you to store the stderr and stdout of a Merge Module as InstallAnywhere variables. This is especially useful when determining if a Merge Module was successfully installed. Available in InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition only.

The new "Import Dynamic Merge Module" option provides the ability to import Panels and Actions from a Merge Module into a master project as an Action Group. These actions and panels will automatically refreshed when you load or build the master installation. This is essential if your Merge Modules require configuration. Available in InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition only.

In a new approach to handling duplicate files, InstallAnywhere now detects source duplication at a file level and only bundles one copy of the source.

By bundling only one copy, InstallAnywhere significantly reduces the footprint of your installations, and that cuts download time for end users as well as CD/DVD costs for larger installations.

FlexNet Connect enables software producers to establish more complete, long-term customer relationshipts by letting them connect directly with their customers through the products they deliver.  This connection can be used to deliver software patches and updates, deliver targeted messages directly to the end-user,  and to gather anonymous data on how the software producer's products are actually being used by customers.

InstallAnywhere saves you time and effort by using a new search algorithm to automatically determine if a specific Java Runtime Environment is already installed on a target machine.

You can also customize your installer to use the first Java Virtual Machine (JVM) it locates on a system, conduct a JVM search based on a property file, give the end user the option of specifying the JVM to use, and more.

In a new approach to handling duplicate files, InstallAnywhere now detects source duplication at a file level and only bundles one copy of the source.

By bundling only one copy, InstallAnywhere significantly reduces the footprint of your installations, and that cuts download time for end users as well as CD/DVD costs for larger installations.

InstallAnywhere now includes the ability to change the position, font, and color settings for labels and fields in end-user installation panels.

It gives you even tighter customization control over the look and feel of your installations, so they can better meet your end users’ needs and your company’s brand requirements.

InstallAnywhere gives you even more flexibility in designing installations with new and expanded APIs.

A new project automation API gives you the power to define, edit, or build a project via a Java API. A new built-in panel API exposes installer UI controls such as buttons, choice groups, choosers, labels, and text fields for more extensibility. Both these APIs are only in InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition.

Also, a new product registry API improves runtime automation possibilities by retrieving detailed product information such as version, date installed, and product components. This API is available in both InstallAnywhere Enterprise and Standard Editions.

You can now use InstallAnywhere to customize your installer’s splash screen with a localized title, an image, instructions, or other information.

It gives your greater customization control for your localized installations. Your installer can automatically select each end user’s native language based on their system settings or a command-line action and present the appropriate localized content.

You can use InstallAnywhere to bundle multiple VM instances for each platform you target, making your installations more flexible. It enables you to create and delete Build Targets on the Build Targets tab. In addition, you can now create more than one Build Target per platform.

For example, from a single installation project you can build for Windows with no VM, Windows with an IBM VM, and Windows with a Sun VM.

Installing software on Windows Vista can be frustrating now that Microsoft has added its User Account Control (UAC) functionality. End users are often forced to deal with multiple UAC prompts seeking to verify credentials for a valid administrator account before launching a task that requires full administrator access, which can spoil the overall installation experience.

For your installations that target Windows Vista, InstallAnywhere includes support for User Account Control (UAC), letting you eliminate unnecessary UAC prompts. It lets you create installations that handle UAC authorization requests in a user-friendly manner, requesting elevated privileges required for all installations just once, and using those privileges throughout the installation.

InstallAnywhere makes it easy to deploy Web applications and support SaaS by adding EAR/WAR files to a J2EE container. Simply provide state, model, and declarative data – no scripting is needed.

InstallAnywhere supports the following application servers: Geronimo 1.1.1 or newer; WebSphere 6.1; JBoss 4.0.5 or newer; Web Logic 10.0; Tomcat 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0; Sun Application Server 9; and Resin 3.1.n.

You can now bundle installation steps for application deployment directly in your installations by enabling SQL scripts or instructions to run within your setups, instead of as an external script.

InstallAnywhere supports the following database servers: MySQL (JDBC drivers not included); Oracle 10.2.0.1, 10.2.0.2, and 10.2.0.3; MS SQL Server 6.5, 7.0, 2000, and 2005; DB2 9.n; Interbase 2007; Firebird 1.0.n, 1.5, and 2.0; PostgreSQL 7.0-8.2; and Sybase ASE 10, 11, 12, and 15.

InstallAnywhere can now present installations in Hebrew and Arabic, improving the end-user installation experience.

You can create graphical installers with bi-directional character set support for Arabic and Hebrew locales (on Windows and Linux systems). InstallAnywhere graphical installers can also render both left-to-right and right-to-left textual elements, buttons, and other controls.

Save QA testing time and increase installation reliability by running Java code to automatically verify the quality of your installations.

InstallAnywhere includes a “Hosts” view that enables you to deploy software on application and database servers.

It provides support for installations that requires different components to be installed to different servers, as well as support for Web applications and SaaS (Software as a Service) deployments.

Exert even tighter control over your installations with the ability to set alternate locations for VM packs and plugins.

InstallAnywhere makes installing and running multiplatform software as easy as installing and running platform-specific software.

InstallAnywhere supports platform-specific installation destinations (Windows directory, /usr/local/bin, Mac OS X Dock, etc.), is compliant with the requirements of the "Designed for Windows XP and Vista" and "Built for Mac OS X" certifications, and integrates seamlessly with Linux RPM and the Windows Service manager.

Platforms include:

• Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit x86)
• Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows XP, 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit x86, Itanium 2, AMD-64)
• Windows 2000, NT (32-bit x86)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (x86, Itanium 2 and AMD-64)
• SUSE Linux 9 and 10 (x86 and PowerPC)
• Linux on zSeries
• Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 (Intel and PowerPC)
• Solaris 9 and 10 (SPARC, x86 and AMD-64)
• HP-UX 11i (Itanium 2 & PA-RISC)
• FreeBSD
• AIX 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1 (Power/PowerPC)
• i5/OS on System i - V5R3 V5R4
• Other Linux and Unix platforms (POSIX-compliant shell required)

Improve the security of your installations by encrypting or hiding project variables, such as install scripts and logs, response files, and installer debug output. Encrypted variables are only decrypted at installation runtime, better protecting your information.

InstallAnywhere gives you the option of encrypting variables using either the InstallAnywhere-native encryption or JCE (Java Cryptology Extension) encryption.

Resolve installation variables at assignment, giving you an even higher level of control over your installations.

Improve your software’s installation experience by notifying users that the installation is finished with the new Install Complete Panel.

Reference Developer Installation Manifest (DIM) files created with the InstallAnywhere Collaboration module. With this plug-in for Eclipse, you can automatically capture and communicate important installation requirements from the developer to the installation author.  Also, run unit tests to ensure that the DIMs you create configure the target system as required by your product.

This feature lets you eliminate possible miscommunication when gathering configuration requirements from development.  Reduce installation development time by eliminating manual entry of configuration requirements for your product.

The new services layer APIs (previously available only in InstallShield MultiPlatform) allow you to customize your installation beyond the standard actions and panels as well as add advanced functionality to your custom code actions.

These API provide increased flexibility to your installation.  For instance, you can use the service layer to manipulate files, query the system registry, and determine if the end-user has administrative privileges.

You can now specify how large you'd like your installation dialogs to be.  You can also preview the installation frame size within the designer. Improve your end users -- installation experience by providing dialogs sized to your fit your content -- no more tedious scrolling.

Increase sales, by expanding your target audience.  Section 508-compliant installations allow you to sell to Federal Agencies.  This feature also lets you provide enhanced user experience to your disabled customers.

FlexNet Connect enables software producers to establish more complete, long-term customer relationshipts by letting them connect directly with their customers through the products they deliver.  This connection can be used to deliver software patches and updates, deliver targeted messages directly to the end-user,  and to gather anonymous data on how the software producer's products are actually being used by customers.

Use this panel to gather user input with the use of text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, and other standard HTML objects. Save time creating custom formatted panels in standard HTML versus writing lengthy custom code in Java.

You can now control the advancement of the progress bar with finer granularity to give your customer a better understanding of where they are during the installation.  Also avoid long progress bar pauses by adjusting the progress bar behavior--enhancing the end-user experience.

Debug your installation faster and more accurately with detailed status on return codes. By default, an installation process returns zero (0) to the environment if it was successful and a nonzero value if it was not. The possible exit codes returned during an installation are defined in the user guide.

End users no longer have to manually create response files for running silent installations. For multiple installations that require the same configuration end users simply need to provide user input once to generate a response file.  The file is automatically used for subsequent installations.

This feature also lets end users filter out secure information, such as passwords.

Provide additional flexibility for your 64-bit applications with 64-bit support.  You can use this feature to install applications that require both 32- and 64-bit support.

With InstallAnywhere, components can be shared between different applications. A component will be installed if it doesn't already exist on the system, however if the component has already been installed by another application it is registered as shared. The uninstaller will not remove a component if it is still needed by another application. This is essential if you are installing a suite of applications that share required resources. You can even share a Java Virtual Machine between applications. Available in InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition only.

InstallAnywhere introduces a revolutionary way to design your installations with the introduction of Action Groups. This is by far the most popular feature request Flexera Software has received from existing customers. Action Groups provide the ability to logically group a set of actions or panels in Pre-Install, Post-Install, Pre-Uninstall and Post-Uninstall. Rules applied to the Action Group affect all the actions or panels it contains. Actions Groups make InstallAnywhere projects more manageable and easier to understand. Available in InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition only.

With InstallAnywhere, you can now specify the exact version of the Java Virtual Machine that the installation or LaunchAnywhere will run against. This is extremely helpful for developers who do not want to bundle a Java Virtual Machine with their application but still want the application to run against a particular Virtual Machine.

InstallAnywhere introduces the concept of cross-product dependencies. Dependencies allow for the conditional installation of specific software applications based on the current system configuration. This is essential for flexible suite installations, and ensures that an application will work as designed when installed.

InstallAnywhere's IDE, the integrated developer environment, including the six-step Project Wizard and the Advanced Designer, is available in localized language versions. Developers who speak English, French, German, and Japanese can author multiplatform installations using their native language.

These installations support the full range of platforms and all 31 target installation languages supported by InstallAnywhere.