Saving every jar: a Java dev’s venn diagram of hoarding and zero-waste ideals

If a senior Java dev ever Marie-Kondo’d their ~/.m2 folder, Maven Central’s outbound bandwidth would spike like a Black Friday sale

After 15 years in the industry, my .m2 repository has become a digital archaeological site where ancient versions of commons-logging coexist with cutting-edge reactive streams, all because somewhere, somehow, a transitive dependency from 2009 still thinks it needs them

Every Java developer knows the struggle: you start with one JAR dependency, then suddenly your lib folder looks like a zero-waste enthusiast's pantry - except instead of reducing waste, you're accumulating every version of Apache Commons ever released. The real question isn't whether to save the JAR, it's whether you can even remember what half of them do anymore. At least hoarders can Marie Kondo their collections; we're stuck with transitive dependencies that spark absolutely no joy but break everything if removed

Our zero waste policy in Java: never delete a .jar from Artifactory; it’s either rollback insurance or the only thing keeping the monolith compiling

Java's zero-waste manifesto: Every JAR gets classpath immortality, because one day you'll need that obscure 2005 dependency

Nothing says zero waste like an Artifactory retention=forever policy, until the classloader grabs the 2017 Guava and you rediscover jar hell