title: Is there such a thing as static jar linking in java?
body: <p>Is there static jar linking in java?</p>
  
  <p>The way I see it is that static linking against a jar extracts the relevant class files from the jar and inserts them into the final product jar. Of course, it should copy any relevant license files from the library jar into the product jar.</p>
  
  <p>Motivation.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to use the <code>ExpandProperties</code> class from ant.jar. The feature itself is likely to occupy just a fraction of the 1.8M, which is the size of ant.jar. </p>