Also worth noting that the JVM itself only weighs a couple of megabytes. The bulk of the size comes from the Java runtime (ie: the "standard libraries"), and there are lots of things that your app may not need there (XML parsing, serialization, etc...)
A couple of years ago I wrote a simple tool (https://github.com/aerofs/openjdk-trim) that allows you to filter out what you don't need. We were able to get the size of OpenJDK from 100MB down to around 10MB.
Note that the work of determining which classes you need is entirely manual. In our case I used strace to check what classes where being loaded.
A couple of years ago I wrote a simple tool (https://github.com/aerofs/openjdk-trim) that allows you to filter out what you don't need. We were able to get the size of OpenJDK from 100MB down to around 10MB.
Note that the work of determining which classes you need is entirely manual. In our case I used strace to check what classes where being loaded.