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Creating Tiny Runtime Images With JLink & JDK9
Huge JRE images were a huge problem for packaging and deploying small and lightweight tools based on Java. I tried to reduce Java runtime images. And I was surprised how well that works. With JDK 9 a minimal image targeting desktops can be as small as 18MB(!). This is a …