in the 1.6.x series, jclouds moved to guava 14. This is a 292k larger jar, but affords many improvements like hashing and encoding functions. Using guava, we were able to write code to replace large dependencies. We also scrapped unused code, or functions now included in guava. At the end, we were able to achieve a net 34% (1900k) decrease in si…

cutting the size

[INFO] |  \- org.jclouds:jclouds-core:jar:1.6.0-SNAPSHOT:compile <- 696k + 3132k deps = 3828k
[INFO] |     +- javax.ws.rs:jsr311-api:jar:1.1.1:compile
[INFO] |     +- com.google.inject.extensions:guice-assistedinject:jar:3.0:compile
[INFO] |     +- com.google.inject:guice:jar:3.0:compile
[INFO] |     |  \- aopalliance:aopalliance:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] |     +- org.99soft.guice:rocoto:jar:6.2:compile
[INFO] |     +- javax.inject:javax.inject:jar:1:compile
[INFO] |     +- javax.annotation:jsr250-api:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] |     +- com.google.code.gson:gson:jar:2.2.2:compile
[INFO] |     \- com.google.guava:guava:jar:14.0-rc2:compile

[INFO] |  \- org.jclouds:jclouds-core:jar:1.5.4:compile <- 784k + 4944k deps = 5728k
[INFO] |     +- org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk16:jar:1.46:compile <- cut
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/crypto/Pems.java
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/crypto/ASN1Codec.java
[INFO] |     +- aopalliance:aopalliance:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] |     +- com.sun.jersey:jersey-core:jar:1.12:compile <- cut
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/http/Uris.java
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/http/UriTemplates.java
[INFO] |     +- com.google.inject.extensions:guice-assistedinject:jar:3.0:compile
[INFO] |     +- com.google.inject:guice:jar:3.0:compile
[INFO] |     +- org.99soft.guice:rocoto:jar:6.1:compile
[INFO] |     +- javax.inject:javax.inject:jar:1:compile
[INFO] |     +- javax.annotation:jsr250-api:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] |     +- com.google.code.gson:gson:jar:2.2:compile
[INFO] |     \- com.google.guava:guava:jar:13.0:compile