title: Elasticsearch client maven dependencies
body: <p>I have a webapp that takes advantage of Elasticsearch. I use an Elasticsearch standalone server and from the webapp side the transport client to communicate. </p>
  
  <p>Currently I include the <code>org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch:jar:1.3.4</code> dependency in my <code>pom.xml</code> and everything works fine. The point is that this dependency along with the transitives sum up to 20MB which is ridiculous. I just want to use the transport client. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a more lightweight client dependency? Will ever be one? (I do not want to use jest or <code>httpclient</code> with the REST API).</p>