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Command Line Tool For Pre-Created JRE Bundles

To automate the creation of pre-created JRE bundles, you can use the command line utility createbundle[.exe] in the bin directory of your install4j installation. The bundle creation tool is invoked as follows: 

createbundle [OPTIONS] [JRE home directory]

The available options are: 

-h,  --help               Displays this help.
-o,  --output             Output directory, default is the current directory.
-v,  --version=<VERSION>  JRE version to be used in the bundle file name.
                          The default is the version as reported by the JRE.
-i,  --id                 Sets custom id for bundle file name.
                          The default is the empty string.
-u,  --unpacked           Create bundle with unpacked JAR files as required
                          for the macOS single bundle archive.
-r,  --jdk-release        Release of JDK that provides the JDK tools. Only
         =<RELEASE>       required if the JRE does not contain the jlink tool
                          and if the JRE version is 9 or higher. This is not a
                          version number, but a release string as shown on the
                          "JRE Bundles" step in the install4j IDE.
-p,  --jdk-provider-id    JDK provider ID for the JDK that is specified with
         =<ID>            --jdk-release. By default "AdoptOpenJDK" is used.
-m,  --add-modules        Add a comma-separated list of modules to the JRE
                          bundle. Can be passed more than once.
-s,  --add-module-set     Add a set of modules to the JRE bundle, either a
       =min|jre|all|none  minimum set, a typical JRE, all modules, or none.
                          The default is "jre".
-j,  --add-jmod=<path>    Add a JMOD file to the JRE bundle. Can be passed
                          more than once.
-d,  --add-jmod-dir       Add a directory with JMOD files to the JRE bundle.
         =<path>          Can be passed more than once.

There are Ant and Gradle tasks as well as a Maven Mojo tasks that you can use to call this command line application from your build system.