This is most likely impossible but in a perfect world we would be able to build all the native installers on one OS. i.e. on Windows it would be great to be able to build the installers for windows (msi, exe) but also for OSx, Linux, Android, iOS, etc.

There are nasty technical (and possibly legal) issues with all of this but I thought I'd log it just in case we can come up with a creative way of doing this.

e.g. Is there anything we can do with virtual machines installed on the one OS. Could we do something with a remote service where the user submits their app to a URL and it sends back the installers, etc. Could the remote service be a kind of Java App Store where you just submit your code and the App Store then does the bundling and releasing (e.g. pushing into the iOS AppStore).

These are just wild idea and all of these are hard and messy, but if something could be achieved it would be a massive win for cross platform Java.