Earlier today a former colleague called and asked me how to strip debug information
from classes compiled with javac's option -g. It turns out that it is very easy
with Sun's JDK. In the same directory as the javac executable is another program,
pack200. If you have a jar file with debugging information and want to remove,
simply run pack200 like this:
pack200 -r -G debug.jar
This will strip all debug information from the jar file. Now this is a round-about
way of doing it and probably not the fastest way. However, it works in a plain
Sun JDK.
