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Extracting library-based Java applications

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Frank Tip,

Peter F. Sweeney,

Chris LaffraAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 46, Issue 8

Pages 35 - 40

https://doi.org/10.1145/859670.859695

Published: 01 August 2003 Publication History

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Reducing the size of Java applications by creating an application extractor.

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    1. Management of computing and information systems
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  1. Software creation and management
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Reviewer: James Edward Tomayko

The problem with Java, even its later versions, is its associated size constraint: 64K for Java Archive (JAR) files, and 512K overall. This is generous, but still a constraint. The authors make a free tool available, called Jax, which accomplishes the goal set forth in the title: extracting library-based Java applications. The use of Jax to pull out used methods from libraries, while leaving those that are unused, results in a 50 percent size savings. The article itself is a solid introduction to the extraction process, contains a link to Internet resources for Jax, and discusses its effectiveness. Online Computing Reviews Service

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