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Posted to users@maven.apache.org by Karthik Manimaran <mk...@gmail.com> on 2005/12/20 17:01:00 UTC

[m2] - WAR file generation

Hi,

I am building a J2EE project. My WAR file includes all the dependency jars
(including the common jars and ejb jars) in the WEB-INF/lib directory. This
creates additional copies of jar files within the EAR file and the size of
the WAR file gets huge. Is there a way to avoid bundling of the dependencies
within the WAR file? The scope attribute value (provided/runtime) doesnt
seem to have an effect on this behaviour.

Thanks and regards,
Karthik.

Re: [m2] - WAR file generation

Posted by Wayne Fay <wa...@gmail.com>.

I'd pull the latest code from SVN, build and install locally, and see
if it works.

Wayne

On 4/12/06, Pat Turner <gr...@ichini.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I tried that first of all, but without success. The latest version at Ibiblio
> is 2.0-beta2, but I think this has been fixed in a later release (2.0-beta3
> ?).
>
> Pat
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Re: [m2] - WAR file generation

Posted by Pat Turner <gr...@ichini.co.uk>.

I tried that first of all, but without success. The latest version at Ibiblio
is 2.0-beta2, but I think this has been fixed in a later release (2.0-beta3
?). 

Pat
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Re: [m2] - WAR file generation

Posted by Wayne Fay <wa...@gmail.com>.

Have you tried:

<excludes>
<exclude>**/WEB-INF/lib/*</exclude>
<exclude>**/WEB-INF/classes/*</exclude>
</excludes>

This is how excludes "should" work. If it doesn't, then you might want
to file a JIRA Enhancement request for this plugin.

Wayne

On 4/11/06, Pat Turner <gr...@ichini.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Karthik,
>
> I'm also integrating Maven2 into our WSAD projects and I've hit the same
> problem as you. The root cause is that the WebContent folder already has the
> dependencies in the WEB-INF/lib folder. So when it is copied into place, all
> the libraries come with it.
>
> WSAD treats WebContent as a src directory *and* a target directory so that
> the embedded test environment will work. Its a pain in the backside to work
> around, and I've had to write a small plugin to sync up the maven
> dependencies into WEB-INF/lib as an additional step after running the
> eclipse plugin.
>
> The solution is to add an excludes section in your war plugin config. You'll
> probably end up with something like this:
> <plugin>
>        <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
>        <configuration>
>                <warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>
>                <excludes>**/WEB-INF/lib/*</excludes>
>        </configuration>
> </plugin>
>
> Note that the <excludes> tag currently only allows a single entry, so you
> can't add '**/WEB-INF/classes/*' as well. This probably means that you'll
> get your test classes copied across, unless you've configured WSAD away from
> its default 'single output location'.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Pat
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Re: [m2] - WAR file generation

Posted by Pat Turner <gr...@ichini.co.uk>.

Hi Karthik,

I'm also integrating Maven2 into our WSAD projects and I've hit the same
problem as you. The root cause is that the WebContent folder already has the
dependencies in the WEB-INF/lib folder. So when it is copied into place, all
the libraries come with it.

WSAD treats WebContent as a src directory *and* a target directory so that
the embedded test environment will work. Its a pain in the backside to work
around, and I've had to write a small plugin to sync up the maven
dependencies into WEB-INF/lib as an additional step after running the
eclipse plugin.

The solution is to add an excludes section in your war plugin config. You'll
probably end up with something like this:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>
<excludes>**/WEB-INF/lib/*</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>

Note that the <excludes> tag currently only allows a single entry, so you
can't add '**/WEB-INF/classes/*' as well. This probably means that you'll
get your test classes copied across, unless you've configured WSAD away from
its default 'single output location'.

Hope this helps.
Pat
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