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Smitty
EclipseP5Exporter: How to reduce .jar file size?
Mar 21st, 2010, 10:35am  
I've searched for answers to this and been unable to find anything.  There's a thread of posts on EP5E, but those all deal with it not working.

It works fine for me -- the exported .jar file works perfectly -- but the  .jar file is roughly 25MB in size, as compared to ~200kb for .jar's created by the PDE's exporter.

What can I do to reduce this file size?  There are no large data files or other obvious culprits here; I did remove some fonts from the application and deleted their files, but that didn't make much difference (and the fonts took up less than 1MB all told anyway.)  The sketch is certainly more sophisticated than anything I've done in PDE (obviously, that's why I'm using Eclipse now) but it's not THAT much snazzier.

Is it some kind of static/dynamic linking issue?  I've looked around for boxes I can check/uncheck, but nothing jumps out at me.
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Smitty
Re: EclipseP5Exporter: How to reduce .jar file size?
Reply #1 - Mar 23rd, 2010, 4:58am  
Follow-up:

I've discovered that if I create a project using the Proclipsing add-on for Eclipse  (great add-on, by the way), I get a much smaller .jar file, even though I'm still using EP5E to export.  

I assume this is because Proclipsing does a more "optimal" project set-up than just "Start Java Project, import processing.core, proceed."

Big thanks to the Proclipsing developer/s.
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