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> From what I understand Java does have facilities to bundle jlink, jpackage, and if you need something complex you can use conveyor: https://hydraulic.softwar

• mike_hearn 4y ago
  Or even if you need something simple :-) Sending little apps to friends is easy now just like it once was, the difference is that the friends don't need to know what runtime you use. Also not only for Java: Electron, Flutter and anything else works too. We have an internal version of Conveyor that can be used to push servers as well. It bundles the jvm, makes debs with auto-scanned dependencies, systemd integration is automatically set up, it's easy to run the server with the DynamicUser feature for sandboxing and it uploads/installs the packages for you via ssh. We use it for our own servers. There seems to be more interest these days in running servers without big cloud overheads, so maybe we should launch it? It's hard to know how much demand there is for this sort of thing, though it gets rid of the hassle of manually configuring systemd and copying files around.