I like to keep my backend from my frontend separated during development. This sounds like an obvious best practice, but it’s not easily done when your frontend is a web app and your backend is Spring Boot: because Spring Boot is self-contained, it encourages you to keep everything in one big module. This is convenient
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Reducing JRE size
Until Java 9 is ready, there is still an option if you need to reduce the size of a bundled JRE: exclude some files! This is totally official and supported by Oracle; in fact all the files you can exclude from a JRE are listed in the JRE’s README (unfortunately with a few persisting typos…)
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