The current JRE we bundle with Stencyl is provided by AdoptOpenJDK, and is included as-is. This allows us to run Stencyl, and also allows us to run Pixelitor if no other external image editor is selected. But that's about it.
By providing a full JDK, and customizing it to remove all of the modules that are unnecessary to Stencyl, we can not only reduce the size of the bundled Java runtime, but we can also use that same bundled runtime for capabilities that previously required an external JDK install. Notably, that includes publishing HTML5 games and building Android games.
By providing a full JDK, and customizing it to remove all of the modules that are unnecessary to Stencyl, we can not only reduce the size of the bundled Java runtime, but we can also use that same bundled runtime for capabilities that previously required an external JDK install. Notably, that includes publishing HTML5 games and building Android games.
