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This article describes a technique to load our own native libraries (and other native dependencies) from our own jar file:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2937406/how-to-bundle-a-native-library-and-a-jni-library-inside-a-jar

The idea is to bundle multiple versions of the native binaries into the jar, extract them to a temp dir at runtime and then load them from there. This is a clever way to make it easier to deploy. There can also be a fall-back to use the current approach if there is any failure in the extraction or loading.

In addition to our own libp2j.so/p2j.dll we might want to also bundle libffi so that we can eliminate that dependency from the install requirements.

In combination with #4550, #5167 and #5568, we could eliminate all of the local install requirements. A critical requirement for the runtime system will be that a writable temp directory is available (with a certain amount of space available). That is OK.