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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John

How are you and Saptar getting on with this challenge?

I did a little experiment this morning.  The dhis.war is about 35M of
mostly compressed application and framework classes which is one of
the reasons why it is a herculean effort for tomcat to try and load it
multiple times into memory.

If you pull out all the WEB-INF/lib/*.jar files from the war and place
those into tomcat's lib directory you are left with a dhis.war which
is only 1.8M.  (I did it on jetty, but same should apply to tomcat).
Everything continues to run as before and I suspect you will find that
you can now load gazillions of dhis2 instances without exhausting the
PermSize.  Let me know how this works.

Of course the downside of de-packaging is that you will hit serious
complications if you are running different dhis2 versions which might
make use of different versions of libraries.  It will be a case of
upgrade one - upgrade all.

Cheers
Bob