[pde-build-dev] Pack200 vs jarOptimizer.

["Foster, Susan B" <susan.b.foster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Pack200 vs jarOptimizer.

Hi,

I have read the information I could find on Jar Processor and Pack200 including: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Pack200

I used Jar Processor to pack the plugins directory of my RCP.  The Jar Processor reduces the size from 41MB (zipped) to 9MB.  This is awesome.  However, if I just use pack200.exe with -G it is 25MB, so it seems that Jar Processor is doing something else as well.  I can see looking at the contents of the directory that this is so.

It is not clear to me from the documentation if Jar Optimizer is intended to be used for RCP, or just for Update sites.  I am also unclear as to whether I can unpack the files packed with unpack200.exe or if I need to have an Eclipse executable on the client machine.  If it is the later then this won't work for an RCP.

Susan Foster
Intel Corporation