How do I bundle a JRE in my JAR, so that it can run on systems without Java?

Question

I want to bundle a JRE inside my executable JAR, so that the exe can run on any system.

I have tried Launch4j, but that approach requires me to ship both the JRE and the

Answer 1

Late better than never. I used maven-shade-plugin in the pom.xml as follows:

        
          maven-shade-plugin
          2.4.3
          
              
                  
                  
                      ${mainClass}
                  
              
              
              
            false
              
              
                  
                      *:*
                      
                          META-INF/*.SF
                          META-INF/*.DSA
                          META-INF/*.RSA
                      
                  
                  
                      *:*
                      
                          sun/misc/**
                      
                  
              
            
            
                
                    package
                    
                      shade