Is there a mechanism to distribute an app with its own JRE?

Question

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Answer 1

Or in short, you can try this:

Make a self executable jar file of your app.

• Provide your users small JRE setup (appx 15MB for jre6u7) along with your app.
• Now create a batch file(for windows) which will first execute the JRE installer.
• Then select path to installed JRE's 'bin' folder.
• Now after this write 'java -jar yourAppName.jar' in the script to run your executable jar file.

eg: for win.bat write the following:

jre-6u7-windows-i586-p  :: this will start the JRE installer
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\bin\java -jar yourAppName.jar  :: this will start your app

You can create such scripts for Mac and Linux also.