I noticed the same thing last week. I too started to remove the references on my local build without any adverse effects. Obviously, I didn't get back to this or check the changes in ... but I think it's safe to remove them.
Joe Paul McMahan wrote:
In several of the poms that invoke jspc-maven-plugin I see: <!-- Required for JSPC compilation --> <dependency> <groupId>tomcat</groupId> <artifactId>jasper-runtime</artifactId> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> I have a vague recollection about needing this dependency for a previous version of the jspc plugin. Or maybe that was something else and I'm getting mixed up. Now we're using version 1.4.6 of the plugin and if I remove the dependency then the build still seems to work correctly (but I don't totally trust my build env right now :-) Does anyone know for sure why its there and if it's still necessary? Best wishes, Paul