Do I need to have Java 9 installed to run the image generated by jLink?

Sundararajan Athijegannathan sundararajan.athijegannathan at oracle.com
Sat Sep 23 01:38:58 UTC 2017


Hi,

jlink produced image dir is complete - it has jvm, required platform + 
app modules, config. etc. to run your modular app.  You don't need to 
install java separately on the target machine ("machine 2").

Thanks,
-Sundar

On 23/09/17, 1:39 AM, kant kodali wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Let's say I create a modularize my app and generate a image using jLink on
> machine1 and from what I understand the image has the runtime as well so if
> I transfer this image to machine 2 which has nothing installed(not even
> Java) can I simply run my app on machine? or does machine2 also need to
> have Java installed?
>
> Thanks!


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