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Kasun Siyambalapitiya
Kasun Siyambalapitiya

Reputation: 4403

Is it possible to reduce the size of the maven distribution

I am currently developing a go lang application which will be used to provision a server (written in Java) by building a given pom.xml file. Since Java is required for running the server, the running system is already having Java installed but it could or could not have maven installed.

So without installing maven or setting M2_HOME in $PATH variable of the running system, the go application is written in such a way that it uses a exploded maven distribution (which is needed to be packed with the release) for the above provisioning.

Since the maven distribution (apache-maven-3.5.2-bin.zip) size is around 9MB the release zip of the application becomes bulky as it is packed with exploded maven distribution. If possible is there any way of reducing the size of the maven distribution by keeping only the libs which required for performing the maven build, so that the release zip will become less bulky.

Upvotes: 0

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Answers (1)

Kasun Siyambalapitiya
Kasun Siyambalapitiya

Reputation: 4403

As with the responses received from the maven-mailing list, the maven installation/distribution just includes the basic features to perform the core features of a build and additional plugins are downloaded as needed to do specific tasks during the build steps. As they suggests the only way to reduce the size is by removing the jansi jar which is used for colour logging.

Upvotes: 1

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