[kodablah]

Here I am hoping for something like project jigsaw (or something else) to make it easy to modularize my applications and redistribute/install only the JRE pieces I need, and then I read "Starting with this release, JavaFX is now fully integrated into Oracle's Java SE implementation"

So much for a less bloated runtime. I confess I am not sure how big of a size impact JavaFX has (and I'm reasonably sure it has no runtime impact).

[nevster]

At this point jigsaw won't even be in Java 8 - it's been bumped to Java 9 - think 2015...

[pjmlp]

For the time being OSGi seems to be the only viable solution.