You can use java's pack200 tool to compress your jar down quite a bit: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/share/pack200.html
I haven't tried it yet, but this ClassLoader that will decompress the pack200 archive into a temp directory before loading the classes. http://scala.sygneca.com/code/compressed-executable-jar Kevin On Apr 17, 7:37 pm, Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 17, 7:36 pm, "Dimiter \"malkia\" Stanev" <mal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Is there any alternative (ClassLoader?) to store the .class files in a > > different compressed format?.NET can store lots of classes in one > > assembly? Is there something like that for JVM? > > ClassLoaders can do almost anything, including load classes via HTTP, > so I expect it would be possible to write a custom ClassLoader that > uses a different compression format (like tar.gz). But it wouldn't > necessarily be easy. ZIP is convenient because it permits random > access to any file within the archive, which tar does not. > > Here's an (old) article with a related > example:http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2000/jw-0421-zipclass.html > > -Stuart Sierra --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
