A couple of years ago, I developed a small Kotlin GUI to help me rename my files in batch. I actually created it with different JVM frameworks to compare their relative merits. In any case, I didn’t use it up until last week. And then, I was surprised to see that it didn’t work to rename a network volume, although it had in the past. In this brief post, I aim to describe the issue and its solution.   The problem   When launching the UberJAR, I couldn’t see the network volumes. I

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Converting a Java UberJAR into a native macOS application using jpackage solves permission issues with network volumes. The process involves using jpackage to create a proper macOS app structure, integrating it into a Maven build with the jpackage-maven-plugin, and optimizing the final app size from 160MB to 82MB by explicitly specifying required Java modules. The build-helper-maven-plugin handles version formatting to comply with macOS requirements.

From a JAR to a full-fledged MacOS app