Looking for a program similar to "strip"

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Robert Dodier - 14 Mar 2007 23:17 GMT

Hello,

There is a Unix program called strip which removes debugging info and
other stuff from executables to make them smaller.
I wonder if there is a similar program for Java jars or class files.
Thanks for any light you can shed on this question.

Robert Dodier

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Joshua Cranmer - 15 Mar 2007 00:52 GMT

> Hello,
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> Robert Dodier

Google for obfuscators. There are tons of them.

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Robert Dodier - 15 Mar 2007 16:33 GMT

> > There is a Unix program called strip which removes debugging info and
> > other stuff from executables to make them smaller.
> > I wonder if there is a similar program for Java jars or class files.
> > Thanks for any light you can shed on this question.

> Google for obfuscators. There are tons of them.

Thanks for the tip.
I've downloaded one called ProGuard (http://proguard.sourceforge.net)
which is free (as in free beer & free speech). I'll give it a try.

Robert Dodier

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PP - 15 Mar 2007 04:06 GMT

> Hello,
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> Robert Dodier

You can try to use Jakarta BCEL to write your own strip.

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