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Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries: With JavaFX, JDBC, jmod, jlink, Networking, and the Process API
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Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries: With JavaFX, JDBC, jmod, jlink, Networking, and the Process API

by Kishori Sharan
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
826 pages
25h 57m
English
Apress
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© Kishori Sharan 2018
Kishori SharanJava APIs, Extensions and Librarieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3546-1_12

12. Custom Runtime Images

Kishori Sharan1 
(1)
Montgomery, Alabama, USA
 
In this chapter, you will learn:
  • What a custom runtime image and the JIMAGE format are

  • How to create a custom runtime image using the jlink tool

  • How to specify the command name to run the application stored in a custom image

  • How to use plugins with the jlink tool

What Is a Custom Runtime Image?

Before JDK9, Java runtime image was available as a huge monolithic artifact—thus increasing the download time, startup time, and the memory footprint. The monolithic JRE made it impossible to use Java on devices with little memory. If you deploy your Java applications to a cloud, ...

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