So I know you can use ant and mvn to test the project, but I was wondering if there was a way to deploy the project directly as a executable jar or otherwise compile it into a format that can be directly ran? Thanks!
if you are serious about making a launchable desktop program (and especially if its going to be a game), you should use launch4j to make an exe file that launches the jar. It isn't hard to use, and it makes the program much more end user friendly