Absolutely. > Why isn't shipping the runtime with the code a more common practise? Well, Java has jlink which is meant to do exactly that (ship the parts of t

Absolutely. > Why isn't shipping the runtime with the code a more common practise? Well, Java has jlink which is meant to do exactly that (ship the parts of the JVM you actually need, which is easy to figure out as there are tools to do that), and that's the recommended approach today for shipping anything Java.