I'm surprised whole jre is packed with the compose...

# compose-desktop

[Animesh Sahu]

I'm surprised whole jre is packed with the compose in just 40mb, when jre itself if of 72mb. How's this optimization done, jpackage?

[suresh]

Yes, jpackage internally uses newly jlink tool to create a custom runtime image (compressed) of the app (in this case non-modular compose app), which will contain only the modules provided by the classpath (which is mostly java.base).