You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to users@maven.apache.org by David Hoffer <dh...@gmail.com> on 2012/09/17 21:09:54 UTC
How to exclude transitive dependencies from war?
I need to package a war so that it can be optionally included in a ear
deployment, put I can't just mark the ear level dependencies as
provided because I do need the full war doing development work and
running GWT hosted mode.
I've followed this link
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/war-manifest-guide.html
regarding how to set the dependency as optional, which seems like it
might be the right solution, as I want the full war in the current
project but when used as an ear dependency I want it to exclude a
dependency (and all its transitive dependencies).
However its not working that way...if I set the artifact via:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.foo</groupId>
<artifactId>bar</artifactId>
<scope>compile</scope>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
It removes just the artifact bar from the war but leaves in the war
all it's transitive dependencies, which is not expected. How can I
also exclude it's transitive dependencies? This point is key as the
logic provided by the ear is significant and probably has 100 or more
jars...no way to know what they all are and that can change too.
-Dave
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@maven.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@maven.apache.org
Re: How to exclude transitive dependencies from war?
Posted by Mark Struberg <st...@yahoo.de>.
I have a similar configuration in my project.
It is an EAR project with lots of WARs on their own. The goal was to provide a way to be able to debug/develop the WARs standalone e.g. via mvn tomcat7:run. In this situation you need all your dependencies (even platform JARs like openwebbeans, myfaces and openjpa) in your WEB-INF/lib folder. But those libs should not get packaged when building the final EAR.
I ended up with an own 'ear' profile with has war-excludes set:
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>ear</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<packagingExcludes>
${war.excludes}
</packagingExcludes>
the war.excludes properties is maintained in a central location. Please note that the war.excludes contains a list of file names and not packages.
E.g. WEB-INF/lib/openwebbeans-*,WEB-INF/lib/myfaces-api-*, ...
LieGrue,
strub
>________________________________
> From: Vincent Latombe <vi...@gmail.com>
>To: Maven Users List <us...@maven.apache.org>
>Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 6:27 PM
>Subject: Re: How to exclude transitive dependencies from war?
>
>Hello,
>
>I believe there is now a skinny war option in the ear plugin that could
>help you to handle this case. I never used it so I cannot really tell you
>more about it.
>
>Another option would be to have 2 profiles to build your war. One with all
>dependencies provided by the ear marked as provided, and another one with
>the same dependencies with compile/runtime scope.
>
>Again another option would be to exclude dependencies at package time (in
>the war plugin configuration)
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Vincent
>Le 17 sept. 2012 21:10, "David Hoffer" <dh...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> I need to package a war so that it can be optionally included in a ear
>> deployment, put I can't just mark the ear level dependencies as
>> provided because I do need the full war doing development work and
>> running GWT hosted mode.
>>
>> I've followed this link
>>
>> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/war-manifest-guide.html
>> regarding how to set the dependency as optional, which seems like it
>> might be the right solution, as I want the full war in the current
>> project but when used as an ear dependency I want it to exclude a
>> dependency (and all its transitive dependencies).
>>
>> However its not working that way...if I set the artifact via:
>>
>> <dependency>
>> <groupId>com.foo</groupId>
>> <artifactId>bar</artifactId>
>> <scope>compile</scope>
>> <optional>true</optional>
>> </dependency>
>>
>> It removes just the artifact bar from the war but leaves in the war
>> all it's transitive dependencies, which is not expected. How can I
>> also exclude it's transitive dependencies? This point is key as the
>> logic provided by the ear is significant and probably has 100 or more
>> jars...no way to know what they all are and that can change too.
>>
>> -Dave
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@maven.apache.org
>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@maven.apache.org
>>
>>
>
>
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@maven.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@maven.apache.org
Re: How to exclude transitive dependencies from war?
Posted by Vincent Latombe <vi...@gmail.com>.
Hello,
I believe there is now a skinny war option in the ear plugin that could
help you to handle this case. I never used it so I cannot really tell you
more about it.
Another option would be to have 2 profiles to build your war. One with all
dependencies provided by the ear marked as provided, and another one with
the same dependencies with compile/runtime scope.
Again another option would be to exclude dependencies at package time (in
the war plugin configuration)
Hope this helps,
Vincent
Le 17 sept. 2012 21:10, "David Hoffer" <dh...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> I need to package a war so that it can be optionally included in a ear
> deployment, put I can't just mark the ear level dependencies as
> provided because I do need the full war doing development work and
> running GWT hosted mode.
>
> I've followed this link
>
> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/war-manifest-guide.html
> regarding how to set the dependency as optional, which seems like it
> might be the right solution, as I want the full war in the current
> project but when used as an ear dependency I want it to exclude a
> dependency (and all its transitive dependencies).
>
> However its not working that way...if I set the artifact via:
>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>com.foo</groupId>
> <artifactId>bar</artifactId>
> <scope>compile</scope>
> <optional>true</optional>
> </dependency>
>
> It removes just the artifact bar from the war but leaves in the war
> all it's transitive dependencies, which is not expected. How can I
> also exclude it's transitive dependencies? This point is key as the
> logic provided by the ear is significant and probably has 100 or more
> jars...no way to know what they all are and that can change too.
>
> -Dave
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@maven.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@maven.apache.org
>
>