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I have a large project (1000+ *.java files). It is a client/server design with a full-fledged client application. Somehow, there are references being made to server-side classes that drag in the entire server code in when compiling just the client. This makes for an extra-fat client. I am finding it very difficult to figure out where the critical link is occurring. I've created my own GUI utility that tries to draw the output of 'javac -verbose' as a tree, to trace which java source files preceeded the loading of others. This helps narrow things somewhat. But I am hopeful there is a NetBeans engineer more familiar with the workings of the compiler that might have a better solution. (I can post my utility if that would be of any help.) Ideally, I would like to enter the name of a class or package that should not be included in the build, then have the NetBeans feature tell me how the class or package got dragged into the compilation. I think this feature might be useful for other people too. For example, I sometimes don't know why I must include some jars in my deployment... it would be nice to know exactly where the jars are required. (Deleting the jar may cause a useful ClassNotFoundException at runtime, but maybe not right away, and it will only reveal the first place the jar is referenced.)