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> Summary
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> 
> -1 to RC1 (the war issue FOR-989 is a showstopper!)
> 
> The following changes (in order of importance) should be addressed in
> RC2:
> - war issue (FOR-989)

The thread "RC1 fails when plugins provide Java" revealed the underlying
reason. Using the trunk of forrest instead of RC1 I can create a war
that contains the jars. 

However it seems to me that the default.forrest.properties.xml from
plugins are not resolved right.

salu2
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Thorsten Scherler                                 thorsten.at.apache.org
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