Wrapping Arbitrary Executables in an .app in Mac OS X 10.6.2 - Recently I've purchased a new Mac and went through the typical, long and involved process of installing all the software I wanted on it. One application in particular, Netbeans, gave me some trouble. The installer simply refused to work. No matter, I figured. I'll just grab the universal version (it's written in Java after all). Sure enough it ran just fine. One thing plagued me, however. Because the universal version doesn't have an actual .app file to put in your Applications directory you can't add it to the dock. While it's not a show-stopper it's clearly suboptimal. I was certain there must be several ways I could wrap the netbeans startup shell script into an .app that I could add to my dock and maybe even set an icon for. After...
