The package-appclient script gathers the required GlassFish runtime bits into a zip which can be copied to one or more remote systems (without GlassFish already installed) and then unzipped to create a remote runtime environment. This equips the remote system to run Java EE app clients using the appclient command, but it also by necessity includes all the JARs referenced from the gf-client.jar Class-Path which would be needed by stand-alone Java SE clients.
Also, if it meets your needs, GlassFish automatically supports launching Java EE app clients using Java Web Start. With a single click an end-user can have the required JARs from GlassFish and the application downloaded and launched.
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