I keep the a small pom.xml
template on my workstation to identify heavy-weight dependencies.
Assuming you want to see the weight of org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-client with all of its transitives create this in a new folder.
<project>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>not-used</groupId>
<artifactId>fat</artifactId>
<version>standalone</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-client</artifactId>
<version>LATEST</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Then cd
to the folder and run mvn package
and check the size of the generated fat jar. On Unix-like systems you can use du -h target/fat-standalone.jar
for that.
In order to test another maven artifact just change groupId:artifactId
in the above template.