Producing "bundled" JREs for other platforms?

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Mon Jul 25 09:24:09 UTC 2016


On 2016-07-25T08:22:55 +0100
Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> The difference is that the application that you are distributing doesn't 
> appear to bundle the JRE, I assume it makes use of whatever JRE or JDK 
> is on the system.
> 
> You might want to look at the javapackager [1], updated in JDK 9 to 
> support modules and jlink (JEP 275 [2]).

Yep, absolutely.

I suspect that I was really hoping that I would be able to use the
tools to bundle a JRE, to avoid having to rely on the user to have a
JRE installed (whilst still leaving open the possibility of using a
system JRE if preferable).

I'll take a look at javapackager.

M


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