Our build has a dependency on the JRE. In order to build our final distribution artifact, we need a JRE. To me, this means that the JRE should be managed as a maven artifact in nexus. Otherwise, I can't use the assembly plugin to build my distribution. I can't really find much on this on the internet, though I do see a couple of people suggesting that it's a whacky idea.
Why is it whacky? The JRE is a raw material upon which our build is dependent, so how else should that be obtained? Other ways of making it available to the build don't seem better . . . How do other people solve this problem?
