Java 5 has a new jar compression program called pack200. It can reduce the
size of jar files significantly. I've seen it reduce them by 2 to 4 times.
It would be great if Advanced Installer could have an option to automatically compress and decompress on install with pack200. Sun provides a freely distributable program. I think this could reduce install size significantly.
Here are some details:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/gui ... ck200.html