Java Minimize Dependencies

Question

I have a situation where there is a small piece of Java code that has a large number of jars that it depends on. However, the dependencies inside these jars are very shallow. In

Answer 1

Classdepandjar will strip down a codebase to the essential classes. It's used in the Jini world for delivering optimally-sized jars, but there's nothing Jini-specific about it.

Available as an Ant task.