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Hi,

Our project is a web application. The war file consists of 4 jars. I am try to use proguard to obfuscate these 4 jars.
In these 4 jars, 1 is named as common jar which acts as a helper to all other 3 jars.
while other 3 jars work independently.

So my approach will be,

  1. I should identify all the public entry points in the common jar and keep it untouched during obfuscation so that after the obfuscation process is done, all the 3 jars are still able to communicate to the common jar.

  2. And in rest of the three jars, i should still use the same class names and api call names which serves as entry point for this common jar.

is my understanding right?

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Hi Vinod,

Would it be possible to elaborate a little on how you are building your web application? I believe the easiest way would be to integrate PG in the build process rather than obfuscating the jars individually, if I understood your case correctly.

Some options to integrate ProGuard in the overall project are:

  1. As an Ant task: https://www.guardsquare.com/en/products/proguard/manual/ant
  2. As a Gradle task: ProGuard Manual: Android Gradle | Guardsquare

Kind regards,

Jonas