Generate minimized jar with only used classes

Question

I\'m in need of creating the minimal jar of utils library for use in Android. I\'m using some methods from apache commons libraries (such as IOUtils, Stri

Answer 1

The maven plugin you can't remember is probably Apache Maven Shade Plugin, there is minimizeJar option. As Andreas_D noticed, this won't include classes, loaded with Class.forName, so you will need to implicity say in configuration, that you need them. Here is how i made maven to include jdbc driver in my single jar:

  net.sourceforge.jtds:jtds
    
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