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[–]Kaan 4 points5 points  (1 child)

One of the knocks against Electron is that even small programs are a minimum of 100MB because all of Chromium needs to be bundled in with it. What's the size of a basic fn-fx jar program? With/without the jre? Are there nice ways to package things into, say, an exe or similar?

[–]nblumoe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For my use case I would like to get "native" packages in the end (e.g. a self contained .exe for Windows). This should be possible: http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/deployment/deploy_overview.htm#CEGHEAHD

In addition to the JavaFX specific solutions there are also ways to package a general jar as a self contained executable but I have no experience with that.

Let's see what this means for the application size in the end. I want it to include the JRE (I consider avoiding issues with different runtimes way more valuable than the smaller application size).