How to properly reference JRE in Maven?

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In our application, we're going to package the JRE as an embedded DLL (to avoid typical Windows issue).

As our project is a typical Maven citizen, I would like to include that JRE as a Maven dependency, to use it later. But is there such an artifact available? And if not, what could be the preferred way to package it?

zipping the whole JRE folder and uploading it to our Nexus?
use a "magical" artifact?
any other solution?

"I would like to include that JRE as a maven dependency" and how can you than download this JRE. As I know Maven required installed JRE on computer. so I don't understand profit of this feature. May be the better idea set in pom configuration version of jre or jdk? — Aliaksei Bulhak, Feb 04 '13 at 13:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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I think this was already touched here

Also if you are on Linux, then you can use RPM solution for application/server, but it is the solution more for deployment and not development.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Feb 04 '13 at 13:41

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