Creating a Quest Input Tool Auto Update build

Here are the steps to create the quest.zip file that the Quest Input Tool will automatically download, unzip and install. To succesfully create this quest.zip file, you must have the JDK1.1.8 'JAR' command in your path.

  1. Create a blank directory called 'quest'
  2. Go into that directory and create a directory called 'new'
  3. Go into the new directory. Your path should now be 'x:\quest\new'
  4. Copy all files needed to do the update. These files normally include com_ibm_nzna.jar, english.lng etc..
  5. Rename the com_ibm_nzna.jar to com_ibm_nzna_new.jar
  6. Change directories to the x:\quest directory
  7. Enter this command: 'jar -cvf0 quest.zip *'
  8. This is the file that needs to be deployed to the Web Server for download.