Bundling a JDK with the app is the officially sanctioned way to ship Java apps since Java 9, so for over a decade now.

Hendrikto 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The JDK is too big for every app to do that, imo.

	▲	pjmlp an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Which is why there are linking and packaging tools for trimming fat that isn't needed, or even AOT compile the application.

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well_ackshually an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You mean a JRE, because the whole JDK contains a bunch of things you're never going to need.

Mind you, a default JRE redistribution makes your app at least 100+MB. Using jdeps to strip out unneeded things is a good idea if you want it to get down to 25 ish MBs.