Limit modules added by javapackager

Question

I am trying to reduce the size of my application by limiting the modules that it includes. I already did this for my runtime using jlink. However, when I run

Answer 1

Using the command line javapackager, you can make use of the deploy options --limit-modules and --add-modules such as:-

javapackager -deploy 
    --add-modules java.base,java.desktop... 
    --limit-modules java.base,java.desktop,java.naming...
    --module-path your.mods.dir
    -native -outdir OUTPUT_DIR -outfile APPLICATION_NAME 
    -srcdir PACKAGE_SRC_DIR -srcfiles APPLICATION.jar -appclass MAIN_CLASS
    -name "YourApplication" -title "SelfContained"

Or colloquially a deploy ant task would consist of something like:-