You can trim down the runtime[1] but the tooling around doing this is non-existent / unreliable. Alternatively, you can generate native binaries with GraalVM[2]

You can trim down the runtime[1] but the tooling around doing this is non-existent / unreliable. Alternatively, you can generate native binaries with GraalVM[2] which comes with its own baggage (license, slow compile time, etc). [1]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/embedded/develop-apps-platforms/custom-jre.htm https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/embedded/develop-apps-platf... [2]: https://www.graalvm.org/ https://www.graalvm.org/