java code compression

[Blah Blah]

i'm writing an applet which is growing a little out of control, and i'm
trying to cut down on the size of the final applet without reducing
functionality. is there a way to strip all excess symbols out of the applet
at compile time, or munge the internal names so that they're shorter?
coming from a C++ background, i have all of these nice, long explanatory
names for my constants - which end up taking an absurd amount of space.

any help would be appreciated!

daniel

 

[Marko Lahma]

You can use java byte (source) code obfuscator. They remove all
unnecessary code and obfuscate the variable names to short ones which
also make undestanding of decompiled code a bit harder. Sideproduct is
smaller byte code size.

for example see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/retroguard.html

Cheers,
Marko

 

[Roedy Green]

i'm writing an applet which is growing a little out of control, and i'm
trying to cut down on the size of the final applet without reducing
functionality. is there a way to strip all excess symbols out of the applet
at compile time, or munge the internal names so that they're shorter?
coming from a C++ background, i have all of these nice, long explanatory
names for my constants - which end up taking an absurd amount of space.

You can do obfuscation which will prune it somewhat.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/obfuscator.html

 

[Blah Blah]

thanks! i'll give this a shot.

 

[Roedy Green]

cut down on the size of the final applet

make sure you put it in a jar, since that compresses the class files.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jar.html