Tool to remove unnecessary dependencies in a Java project

Question

I have a Java project that currently has a lot of JARs in its libraries directory, which are all included in the resulting package when building. I know, however, that some

Answer 1

Beware of the case that a class is loaded via Class.forName() and not specified as a dependency in the manifest file (there is a Depends-On: attribute that is for that, but many people don't specify it, which breaks tools like this, the bane of my existence when I worked on such a tool).