Shrink applet jar file

[Cervator]

With Groovy integrated into the codebase the jar file has grown a fair bit, making it take longer to load the applet. It is possible to shrink it quite a bit, like described at http://www73.pair.com/bgw/applets/GroovyDemo - this item simply aims to take such steps to shrink the jar file and should be fairly straight forward to experiment with.

Not a very high priority item, but a good item for a somewhat Java comfortable budding contributor

[rapodaca]

'Obfuscation' is the term to search for. Had great experience with Proguard:

http://proguard.sourceforge.net/

[Cervator]

I think that's the one I ended up looking at a while back, in relation to some Google libs (maybe just linked/liked from there). If that also shrinks the individual lib jars then cool :-)

[rapodaca]

Here's an old description of integrating proguard into gradle build task:

http://mobilebytes.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/gradle-task-for-proguard/

[Cervator]

Handy - thanks for the link!

[Cervator]

Closing this in favor of MovingBlocks/FacadeApplet#14