Question

I am building a JApplet that has to be embedded on a 64KB partition. So far I have enough space, but I am wondering if you can give me some great tips on how to make my jar file smaller. I am reusing code as much as possible and compressing jar file when compiling. Thank you all.

Answer 1

Two things I would definitely do:

1. Obfuscation will make all names (classes, variables, methods) shorter
2. Don’t compile any debug info into your classes
   (javac -g:none, or equivalent option in Ant/Maven whatever you use
   to compile)