Hello Dan,

Before he went on a short holiday, Bram committed the first working version of 
the new agent. It is still too big, but with this setup we have a good starting 
point to start minimizing it.

One area that immediately comes to mind is the dependency on commons-codec of 
which we use only a tiny bit. If someone could hunt down those few bits where 
we use it and perhaps replace that whole library with just a class or two, that 
would be a good starting point.

There are definitely some more things that can be stripped like this, but this 
one is probably the easiest.

Greetings, Marcel


On Aug 29, 2013, at 10:18 , Daniel McGreal <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Marcel!
> I would be delighted to be able to contribute to these efforts, in any way. 
> Is there any document of your intended strategy or steps taken so far I could 
> read? I found https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACE-347 (which is marked 
> as resolved) and I will take a look at the svn commits.
> Is there a timeline for the next release?
> Many thanks for your time, 
> Dan.
> 
> On 29 Aug 2013, at 09:04, Marcel Offermans <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Dan,
>> 
>> On Aug 28, 2013, at 17:57 PM, Daniel McGreal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm developing an application within the confines of 5.4 megabytes of 
>>> storage space.
>>> 
>>> I'd like to use the ACE management agent within this application, but the 
>>> storage requirements are prohibitive. Can anyone offer any suggestions 
>>> through which I could repackage the agent to minimise the jar's disk usage?
>> 
>> 
>> We are currently working on a full redesign of the management agent, where 
>> one of the focus points is to make it a lot smaller. That work is currently 
>> being done in org.apache.ace.agent in trunk, so you might want to check that 
>> out. It's not done yet, we still have to eliminate some dependencies to get 
>> the size down, but the basis we have there now lends itself better to doing 
>> that.
>> 
>> All in all, this is coming, and I hope it makes the next release. In the 
>> mean time, feel free to give us some feedback on this new version!
>> 
>> Greetings, Marcel
>> 
> 

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