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

I wrote a small eclipse plugin that takes an existing java project from the workspace. For every classpath entry of the projects raw classpath it removes it from the projects raw classpath and builds the project. If no problem markers with severity error appear on the project, it permanently removes the classpath entry from projects raw classpath.

I'm not able to share that plugin, but that is not too much work to implement it yourself with the links to the api given above.