Bug 1067288

Summary: TECH DEBT: reduce size of zanata.war; exclude unused dependencies
Product: [Retired] Zanata Reporter: Sean Flanigan <sflaniga>
Component: Deployment, MaintainabilityAssignee: Alex Eng <aeng>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Damian Jansen <djansen>
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Version: developmentCC: dchen, djansen, zanata-bugs
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Target Release: 3.5   
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Fixed In Version: zanata-war-3.5.0-SNAPSHOT Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-01-26 23:28:02 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Sean Flanigan 2014-02-20 06:36:57 UTC 
Description of problem:

zanata.war is currently (as of v3.3) about 135MB, when it should probably be less than 50MB.  A large reason is the dependency jars in WEB-INF/lib.  We should check whether we need all our dependencies, both direct[1] and transitive.

Resources which may help:

http://www.jboss.org/tattletale
http://samulisiivonen.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/cleanin-up-maven-dependencies.html
http://mestachs.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/webs-fear-and-maven/

[1] We do use maven-dependency-plugin to check for unused direct dependencies, but the grandfathered dependencies in zanata-war/pom.xml need to be checked and either removed or commented.  maven-dependency-plugin does not check for unused transitive dependencies.
Comment 1 Alex Eng 2014-05-26 05:23:07 UTC 
Pull request:
https://github.com/zanata/zanata-server/pull/463
Comment 2 Damian Jansen 2014-06-20 00:20:14 UTC 
Down to 65MB. Good effort guys.
Comment 3 Sean Flanigan 2014-06-20 03:36:02 UTC 
Unfortunately, I don't think it really shrank quite that much.  Some of our Jenkins builds enable more GWT permutations than others.  I think it's more like 100MB for a full build.