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    What is it ?  
       IzPack is a powerfull Java Software Installer released under ther terms of the GNU General Public Licence. It uses a very modular architecture that lets you choose how you want your installers to be. You can even extend its capabilities to make it suit perfectly your needs : an API has been especially designed to give you the ability to make your own panels. There is even a XML parser included in every IzPack-generated installer !  
 
    How does it work ?  
       Basically, IzPack is a command-line based compiler that takes an XML file describing your installation as an input. This gives the experienced users the ability to fully-customize their XML installation files to get exactly what they want. This can also help integrating IzPack in a larger building-process : IzPack is ready to use with Jakarta Ant as a task.

     But IzPack also comes with a GUI Frontend that will avoid you of typing the XML files to prepare your installations. Moreover, it is also able to directly invoke the compiler so that this frontend really allows you to forget everything about the classical building process if you don't feel at ease with it.