[jira] [Commented] (MNG-6287) improving inclusion of open source code referenced by java projects.

["Robert Scholte (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Robert Scholte commented on MNG-6287:
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To me this looks effectively the same as using [maven-shade-plugin|https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin] with the [minimizeJar|https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/shade-mojo.html#minimizeJar] set to {{true}}

> improving inclusion of open source code referenced by java projects. 
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>
>                 Key: MNG-6287
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6287
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Sunil Kumar Singh
>
> All the details are on git hub at:
> https://github.com/ksunilsingh/code-collector
> This is an idea on improving inclusion of open source code referenced by java projects. Currently when we use a java build system (such as maven or gradle), the build system downloads the jar files referenced by a java project. What I am proposing here is a replacement for that:
> Find out all the classes referenced by the classes in a java project (say, project A).
> Download the source code for these dependencies recursively and include the downloaded source code in the source tree of project A.
> Remove the dependency(ies) from project build configuration file (e.g. pom.xml) and build the project.
> The resulting jar file would be smaller in size than if the full jar for the dependency is included as is.



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