> I've used obfuscators for this purpose. A nice open source one
> is here http://proguard.sourceforge.net/
Worth noting that proguard is a shrinker *and* obfuscator.
IOW, it'll both remove things not needed *and* obfuscate (switching
packages or not, based on config). The shrinking is a *huge* help in
some areas, like when I have my applet jar merge in some libraries
(zipgroupfileset is *nice* in ant) like Jakarta Commons Lang, Logging,
etc.
http://proguard.sourceforge.net/alternatives.html
As an aside, proguard's author, Eric Lafortune, has been *very*
responsive about potential bugs. As it turned out, for instance,
Microsoft's "jvc" compiler in debug mode adds in proprietary class
attributes not in the official byte code specification (specifically,
a SourceDir attribute), and Eric sent me a patch to add support for it
only 24 hours after I had tracked down the problem. It was great!
So, yeah, proguard rocks - everyone should use it :)
James
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