JarCastingjbinary-maven-plugin
JBinary Maven plugin, do you want to generate a binary with non dependencies of any java application using maven? this is your tool
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.segator</groupId>
<artifactId>jbinary-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0.8</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>jbinary</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<jreVersion>1.8.0_131</jreVersion> <!-- Jre version to compile in the executable embeded file-->
<jBinaryJavaDownload>http://mycustomrepository.com/{javaType}/{javaVersion}/{javaType}-{javaVersion}-{platform}{architecture}.tgz</jBinaryJavaDownload>
<!--If you have your own jre, you can set the url, (the tar.gz file must jave a folder /java inside and jre content inside -->
<useMavenRepositoryJavaDownload>true</useMavenRepositoryJavaDownload>
<!-- if you have your own repository, expected groupid com.oracle.java, artifact jre|jdk by default is downloaded from here https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus
This param is skiped if you use jBinaryJavaDownload -->
<jBinaryURLWindows>https://github.com/segator/jbinary/releases/download/%s/windows_amd64_jbinary_%s.exe</jBinaryURLWindows>
<jBinaryURLLinux>https://github.com/segator/jbinary/releases/download/%s/linux_amd64_jbinary_%s</jBinaryURLLinux>
<!--Custom JBinary Download URL, %s is replaced by the Jbinary Version -->
<jreVersion>1.8.0_131</jreVersion> <!-- Java version will be embeded to generated executable -->
<mavenInstallArtifact>true</mavenInstallArtifact> <!-- If true, generated artifacts will be installed to maven local repository and
selectable for other maven plugins, like maven-release-plugin -->
<compressBinary>true</compressBinary> <!-- Compress = less binary size, uncompress faster boot-->
<jvmArguments>-Xms512M;-Xmx1024M</jvmArguments> <!-- Static JVM Arguments you want to be used by generated binary -->
<appArguments>--verbose</appArguments> <!-- Static Applicaiton arguments you want to be used by generated binary -->
<!-- Next arguments only apply on windows builds, it defines executable metadata -->
<winCompany>My Company<winCompany>
<winCopyright> Copyright 2018</winCopyright>
<winDescription>Application Description</winDescription>
<!-- Default behaviour to run app, in gui mode no console is shown but you can't execute by console or capture stdout, (console|gui) default(console) -->
<winExecutionBehaviour>console</winExecutionBehaviour>
<!-- Arguments that will force console mode in case of default behaviour gui, default (-console;-terminal) -->
<winExecutionEnableConsoleBehaviourArgs>-console</winExecutionEnableConsoleBehaviourArgs>
<!-- Relative path to application icon -->
<winIconPath>myapplication.ico</winIconPath>
<!--Windows Invoker type asInvoker|requireAdministrator default(asInvoker) -->
<winInvoker>requireAdministrator</winInvoker>
<winProductName>My Product Name</winProductName>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Prerequisites
You must have installed golang 1.10.x or supperior set in the system vars $GOPATH $GOSRC $GOBIN and add in your $PATH the $GOBIN path
Create tiny binary files
You could try the new cool system of java modules in java9 to create a very tiny jre To create a tiny java9 module you can use jlink(installed by default on a JDK installation)
jlink --module-path $JAVA_HOME/jmods --verbose --compress 2 --no-man-pages --no-header-files --output "$HOME/myjre/java" --add-modules java.base,java.rmi,java.xml,java.desktop,java.sql
tar -czvf my-custom-tiny-jre.tar.gz "$HOME/myjre/java"
After create the tar.gz upload to a web server or mvn repository and use in your mvn pom jBinaryJavaDownload in case of web server or useMavenRepositoryJavaDownload in case of mvn repository
Application slow to boot
Play disabling compression, could help or think about use java9 modules