Jar Deployment - Correct Order Of Execution of Steps

Question

I am using allatori as an obfuscation tool.

I have 24 jars required for an Applet , so i found the steps to compress the Jars to minimize downloading time,

1) Create uncompressed jars 2) Repack jars 3) Sign jars 4) Pack200 jars 5) finally apply LZMA to the file

now i am confused where should i introduce obfuscation step I think it should be after 1 and before 2 , am i right ?

What is the best way to accomplish my goal here in terms of order of the Task ?

can anyone explain of what order and why i should follow ?

Thanks

Answer 1

According to my knowledge, you would obfuscate between 1 and 2. That will make the compiled class files smaller in size.

I am not really sure that this will help you gain a really big difference in size for your applet though.