Java SE 8 is the first Java release to incorporate JRE ‘profiles’, customized subsets of JRE libraries according to the needs of your app.
From the SE Embedded you need to create the JRE based on a selected profile and then copy it across to your device:
./bin/jrecreate.sh --help
to get a list of the options (more notes here).
To run the above on a Mac, you’ll need to set your JAVA_HOME first, assuming you already have an SE JDK installed. The Java install on Macs is different from other platforms, to handle having multiple versions installed. I have notes in a previous post on how to do this here.
Create a compact1 profile jre with:
./bin/jrecreate.sh --dest jre8 -p compact1
Zip the created dir with
zip -r jre8.zip jre8/*
Scp it over to your target device, unzip and you’re ready to go!