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Eric Pabst commented on MEAR-60: -------------------------------- The patch has a lot of reformatting in it. I fixed the formatting, rebased it onto the latest trunk, and pushed it to: https://github.com/epabst/maven-plugins/tree/MEAR-60 I want to do something related, and having this to go from was helpful. > Improve support for skinny war files > ------------------------------------ > > Key: MEAR-60 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEAR-60 > Project: Maven 2.x Ear Plugin > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 2.3 > Environment: mvn 2.0.5 > Reporter: Marcel Schutte > Priority: Critical > Attachments: maven-ear-plugin-MEAR-60.patch > > > Provide a boolean configuration option for webModules to include the war's > transitive dependencies. > As described on > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/skinny-wars.html it > is very common in a J2EE environment to use so called skinny wars. Here the > war's WEB-INF/lib will not contain the dependent jars, but instead they are > packaged inside the EAR. The war references them through its > META-INF/MANIFEST.MF > This option could be used to avoid the 'painful part' mentioned in the above > web page. The war's dependencies wouldn't have to be duplicated alongside the > ear's. > I also found an old issue (MEAR-14) which has asked for the current default > behavior of not including the transitive dependencies. It suggests a property > to include specific dependencies of the war. As far as I can tell this has > never been implemented and this is also not what I am asking for. My proposal > is an all of nothing kind of option for each war module in the ear. > On a side note, for me this is the part where removal of the old maven 1 > style properties per dependency is missed the most. With them it was possible > to decide for each single dependency whether to put it in WEB-INF/lib or > reference it through the manifest classpath. But of course, then we didn't > have the transitive dependencies -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira