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Posted to java-user@axis.apache.org by Davanum Srinivas <da...@gmail.com> on 2006/05/08 06:32:43 UTC

Re: Minimal SOAP Client footprint

did u try removing log4j-1.2.13.jar? and jaxen-1.1-beta-8.jar?

Please try removing one by one and then let us know?

thanks,
dims

On 5/8/06, Arvind Chaudhary <ca...@techmahindra.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Which jar files are required for a simple SOAP client?
>
>
>
> A simple client which I run, from the samples – "googleSearch", depends on
> the following jar files. The total size of these files adds to 3.25 MB.
>
>
>
> annogen-0.1.0.jar
>
> axiom-api-1.0.jar
>
> axiom-impl-1.0.jar
>
> axis2-kernel-1.0.jar
>
> backport-util-concurrent-2.1.jar
>
> commons-codec-1.3.jar
>
> commons-fileupload-1.0.jar
>
> commons-httpclient-3.0.jar
>
> commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
>
> jaxen-1.1-beta-8.jar
>
> log4j-1.2.13.jar
>
> neethi-1.0.1.jar
>
> stax-api-1.0.jar
>
> stax-utils-20060501.jar
>
> wsdl4j-1.5.2.jar
>
> wstx-asl-2.9.3.jar
>
> XmlSchema-1.0.2.jar
>
>
>
> Are all these needed or are there some un-necessary dependencies?
>
> I did check the dependency on these and found them pretty much
> interdependent.
>
> Are there any plans to optimize it for small footprint for clients?
>
>
>
> -Arvind.


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Re: Minimal SOAP Client footprint

Posted by Rodrigo Ruiz <rr...@gridsystems.com>.

I am curious about log4j not being removable. It should be. Which 
exception (stack trace) does it throw when you remove it? Maybe it is a bug.



Regards,
Rodrigo

Arvind Chaudhary wrote:
> Rodrigo,
> 
> Thanks, for your inputs. I could remove backport-util-concurrent-2.1.jar,
> annogen-0.1.0.jar and jaxen-1.1-beta-8.jar. 
> 
> So the files reduce to 14 totaling 2.48MB. That’s still too big for a simple
> client! I think it can be reduced further, at least the commons and the
> logging part. I don’t see the logging and Commons http client used directly
> in the sample code. 
> 
> axiom-api-1.0.jar
> axiom-impl-1.0.jar
> axis2-kernel-1.0.jar
> commons-codec-1.3.jar
> commons-fileupload-1.0.jar
> commons-httpclient-3.0.jar
> commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
> log4j-1.2.13.jar
> neethi-1.0.1.jar
> stax-api-1.0.jar
> stax-utils-20060501.jar
> wsdl4j-1.5.2.jar
> wstx-asl-2.9.3.jar
> XmlSchema-1.0.2.jar
> 
> The sample does not work without commons-fileupload-1.0.jar and
> log4j-1.2.13.jar. Though, it does not "POST" anything. It uses the Google
> Web API for the search.
> 
> Here is the code from the sample "sample.google.search.AsynchronousClient":
> 
>         URL url = null;
>         try {
>             url = new URL("http", "api.google.com", "/search/beta2");
>         } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
>             e.printStackTrace();
>             System.exit(0);
>         }
> 
>         Options options = new Options();
>  
> options.setProperty(MessageContextConstants.CHUNKED,Constants.VALUE_FALSE);
>         options.setTo(new EndpointReference(url.toString()));
> 
>         MessageContext requestContext = ClientUtil.getMessageContext(this);
>         try {
>             options.setTransportInProtocol(Constants.TRANSPORT_HTTP);
>             QName opName = new QName("urn:GoogleSearch", "doGoogleSearch");
>             AxisOperation opdesc = new OutInAxisOperation();
>             opdesc.setName(opName);
>             ServiceClient serviceClient = new ServiceClient();
>             serviceClient.setOptions(options);
>             OperationClient opClient =
> serviceClient.createClient(ServiceClient.ANON_OUT_IN_OP);
>             opClient.addMessageContext(requestContext);
>             opClient.setCallback(new ClientCallbackHandler(this.gui));
>             opClient.execute(false);
> 
>         } catch (AxisFault e1) {
>             e1.printStackTrace();
>         }
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> Arvind. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodrigo Ruiz [mailto:rruiz@gridsystems.com] 
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 6:24 PM
> To: axis-user@ws.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Minimal SOAP Client footprint
> 
> Arvind,
> 
> If you use java5, you may remove "backport-util-concurrent-2.1.jar".
> 
> As Dims states, "commons-fileupload-1.0.jar" should be removable if your
> client does not "post" files to any web page. I am not sure, but the
> dependency from "axis2-kernel-1.0.jar" is probably due to the REST support.
> 
> If you are talking about a runtime environment, libraries regarding code
> generation might be also removed. If this is your case, you may be able
> to remove "annogen-0.1.0.jar".
> 
> "log4j-1.2.13.jar" should be optional, but Jaxen seems to have a direct
> dependency on it. Jaxen should be needed only for complex XPath queries,
> so you might be able to remove both jars.
> 
> For simple clients, JMS support should not be needed, so
> "geronimo-spec-jms-1.1-rc4.jar" is another jar that may be removed from
> the list.
> 
> "neethi-1.0.1.jar" provides some classes needed for WS-Policy support.
> Ideally, these classes should be optional, as in simple cases, this
> specification will not be used. Perhaps some in the list can confirm this.
> 
> 
> The dependencies that you get by JarAnalyzer may be "soft" dependencies.
> They may refer to implementation classes that can be replaced by other
> ones through System properties. Can anybody confirm this? If this is
> correct, some wisely selected property definitions in the command line
> should remove several of these dependencies, and help to get a smaller
> footprint.
> 
> I personally think that some of these dependencies should be considered
> as bugs. Either at code level, or at documentation level, as it is hard
> to find information about how to replace/remove them.
> 
> Regards,
> Rodrigo
> 
> 
> Arvind Chaudhary wrote:
>> Dims,
>>
>> I tried, and this is the smallest number that it works on. I have also
>> generated a dependency list. I am embedding in the mails. Don't know if
>> attachments are allowed in this forum.
>>
>> -Arvind
>>
>>
>>
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