diff --git a/buildConfig/RegionChooser.bat b/buildConfig/RegionChooser.bat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f28ebeed8e7a29d6734480426babef3e73350303
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildConfig/RegionChooser.bat
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+java -classpath lib/* -Xms512m -Xmx2g -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties eu.simstadt.regionchooser.RegionChooserFX
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diff --git a/buildConfig/RegionChooser.command b/buildConfig/RegionChooser.command
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a4e92bb4c7d7cd0f953cba0d26bb87d240d52767
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildConfig/RegionChooser.command
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+cd "$(dirname "$0")" # set the current working directory to the directory this script is in
+java -classpath lib/* -Xms512m -Xmx2g -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties eu.simstadt.regionchooser.RegionChooserFX
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diff --git a/buildConfig/RegionChooser.sh b/buildConfig/RegionChooser.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2696b380a4fee8df427606f73ab348825d887d77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildConfig/RegionChooser.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+java -classpath 'lib/*' -Xms512m -Xmx2g -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties eu.simstadt.regionchooser.RegionChooserFX
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diff --git a/buildConfig/assemblyDesc.xml b/buildConfig/assemblyDesc.xml
index c628176a5e1b9c4af6b69a7813a02dc0436118b4..525c30d198f61f6d46adab2301dcf4090e3cead8 100644
--- a/buildConfig/assemblyDesc.xml
+++ b/buildConfig/assemblyDesc.xml
@@ -12,9 +12,11 @@
 			<outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
 			<filtered>true</filtered>
 			<includes>
-				<include>start.bat</include>
-				<include>start.sh</include>
+				<include>RegionChooser.bat</include>
+				<include>RegionChooser.command</include>
+				<include>RegionChooser.sh</include>
 			</includes>
+			<fileMode>0755</fileMode>
 		</fileSet>
 		<fileSet>
 			<directory>${project.basedir}</directory>
@@ -27,14 +29,14 @@
 		</fileSet>
 		<fileSet>
 			<directory>${project.build.directory}</directory>
-			<outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
+			<outputDirectory>./lib</outputDirectory>
 			<includes>
 				<include>*.jar</include>
 			</includes>
 		</fileSet>
 		<fileSet>
 			<directory>${project.build.directory}/libs</directory>
-			<outputDirectory>./libs</outputDirectory>
+			<outputDirectory>./lib</outputDirectory>
 			<includes>
 				<include>*.jar</include>
 			</includes>
diff --git a/buildConfig/start.bat b/buildConfig/start.bat
deleted file mode 100644
index f3b813db08707f5b8e758e910c735e5cdabd1c92..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/buildConfig/start.bat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-java -jar ${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar
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diff --git a/buildConfig/start.sh b/buildConfig/start.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d5986c50c16333f691d77fe7e48c5732e78d82c..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/buildConfig/start.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-java -jar ${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar
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