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With this new release (8.3.2) the bootstrapper has support for native libs  or native resources. The correct resources should be downloaded and native libs are added to the system path so that they can be used with System.loadLibrary(name)

The standalone bootstrapper is added because Oracle is dropping support for WebStart (not sure when, or if Java 11 will still have it)

Through webstart:

To speed up (especially under windows) the smart clients startup, you can use a special bootstrap.jar 

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