| Description |
Tool used to analyze a set of classes and determine on what other classes
they directly or indirectly depend. Typically this tool is used to
compute the necessary and sufficient set of classes to include in a JAR
file, for use in the class path of a client or service, or for use in the
codebase of a client or service. The tool starts with a set of "root"
classes and recursively computes a dependency graph, finding all of the
classes referenced directly by the root classes, finding all of the
classes referenced in turn by those classes, and so on, until no new
classes are found or until classes that are not of interest are
found. The normal output of the tool is a list of all of the classes in
the dependency graph. The output from this command can be used as input
to the jar tool, to create a JAR file containing precisely
those classes. |
