[maksut]

Is that still true when distributing libraries?

[brabel]

Absolutely not. jlink is used to distribute applications (it includes your code, the Java libs you use, i.e. their jars, and the trimmed-down JVM with the modules you're using so that your distribution is not so big - typically around 30MB).

Java libraries are still obtained from Maven repositories via Maven/Gradle/Ant/Bazel/etc.

[pron]

If you distribute libraries as jmod files, which few libraries do (in that case, jlink would automatically extract the native libraries and place them in the appropriate location).