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

As far as I know, this is maven only, but it's a good start

Maven Shade Plugin: This plugin provides the capability to package the artifact in an uber-jar, including its dependencies and to shade - i.e. rename - the packages of some of the dependencies.

Answer 2

ProGuard does shrinking/optimizingh and also obfuscation. I think you can config it to do just one or the other.

Answer 3

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.