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This example demonstrates how to use post-processing to obfuscate jar files that use non-conformant folders (such as BOOT-INF).

This example will use a Spring Boot starter application.

Basically, the process runs through the following steps:

1. compile and package the Spring Boot Application
2. extract classes from BOOT_INF
3. use a standard obfuscation scheme which will leave libraries unobfuscated
4. package the classes from the obfuscated JAR back into the JAR packaged in step 1

The steps are illustrated with command line instructions below.

Obfuscating with Maven

# package the spring boot application with obfuscated application classes
mvn clean package

Obfuscating with Gradle

gradle clean build

Obfuscating with Ant

ant clean obfuscate