Solved What is the best way to use large external libraries when making a plugin? (scala runtime)

I picked up a copy of the book "Seven languages in seven weeks," and now I am hooked on trying to develop a plugin using scala. So far, I can get a simple Scala plugin to run, but I need to pack the entire scala runtime into it, and it is about 8mb

Code:scala

package me.jtjj222.scalatest
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
 
class ScalaPlugin extends JavaPlugin{
 
override def onEnable() {
  println("hi");
}  
}

It outputs this (from jd-gui) when compiled (note, it actually outputs bytecode, but it is easier to show you the decompiled java):

Code:java

package me.jtjj222.scalatest;
 
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
import scala.Predef.;
import scala.ScalaObject;
import scala.reflect.ScalaSignature;
 
@ScalaSignature(bytes="\006\001\0352A!\001\002\001\023\tY1kY1mCBcWoZ5o\025\t\031A!A\005tG\006d\027\r^3ti*\021QAB\001\bURT'N\r\0323\025\0059\021AA7f\007\001\0312\001\001\006\027!\tYA#D\001\r\025\tia\"\001\003kCZ\f'BA\b\021\003\031\001H.^4j]*\021\021CE\001\007EV\\7.\033;\013\003M\t1a\034:h\023\t)BB\001\006KCZ\f\007\013\\;hS:\004\"a\006\016\016\003aQ\021!G\001\006g\016\fG.Y\005\0037a\0211bU2bY\006|%M[3di\")Q\004\001C\001=\0051A(\0338jiz\"\022a\b\t\003A\001i\021A\001\005\006E\001!\teI\001\t_:,e.\0312mKR\tA\005\005\002\030K%\021a\005\007\002\005+:LG\017")
public class ScalaPlugin extends JavaPlugin
  implements ScalaObject
{
  public void onEnable()
  {
    Predef..MODULE$.println("hi");
  }
}

So while it might not be the most clean output, the language offers some awesome features that I want to try out. Does anyone know of a better way to do this?

 

I recently added this to the wiki, http://wiki.bukkit.org/Using_External_Libraries_with_Plugins
Shading this is probably not the way to go.

 

For something as niche and big as scala, if you do decide to release on BukkitDev, shading is not the way to go. In almost every other plugin it is.

 

Ok, I figured it out. I created a "loader" plugin that loads all of the scala dependencies, then loads my plugin. Thanks guys!