Re: Using shaded JAR as a dependency in a WAR module
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron, I'm not sure if it's a better or worse solution. It does minimize the configuration effort. This is always a good thing when moving people from Ant to Maven. What it does illustrate (at least to me) is that the code base I'm working with has more technical debts that need to be addressed. Also, that the documentation is quite dense - you speed through it at your peril. . . . just my two cents /mde/ On 12/5/2014 7:36 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: Great. I hope that the discussion was helpful even if you found a better solution. Ron On 05/12/2014 3:22 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: Ron and Stephen, Ron, we cannot use libraries installed into Tomcat's $CATALINA_BASE/lib directory for several reasons. While it's nice from a developer and deployment point of view, we do end up running multiple versions of the WAR file (with different versions of various dependencies) on the same Tomcat. We also release the WAR file, and it would be difficult to require people to modify their server environment. Thanks! I finally figured it out. 1. Issue number 1 I was using a POM artifact to aggregate a set of lower level libraries. In order to do this, I had to set the following in the shade plugin: promoteTransitiveDependenciestrue/promoteTransitiveDependencies This of course makes perfect sense. 2. Issue number 2 I needed to set the following: keepDependenciesWithProvidedScopetrue/keepDependenciesWithProvidedScope Both of these are mentioned (albeit not as clearly as it might be) in the fine documentation here: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/shade-mojo.html Combining those two creates a JAR with all of the dependency pom.xml files in it, as well as the classes / resources / etc. An examination of the target WAR file shows a nice, clean WEB-INF/lib with managed dependencies all the way down the chain. For those people interested, the dependencies and shade plugin configuration are given below. dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCalhost/artifactId version${calhost.version}/version /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIHomeResources/artifactId version${ihomeresources.version}/version typepom/type /dependency /dependencies build plugins plugin groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId artifactIdmaven-shade-plugin/artifactId version2.3/version executions execution idcombine/id phasepackage/phase goals goalshade/goal /goals configuration keepDependenciesWithProvidedScopetrue/keepDependenciesWithProvidedScope promoteTransitiveDependenciestrue/promoteTransitiveDependencies artifactSet includes includeorg.mdeggers:*/include /includes /artifactSet /configuration /execution /executions /plugin /plugins /build Sorry for the line length. Obviously, if you don't have any transitive dependencies, you won't need the promote line. It works. Hope this is the correct solution. . . . just my two cents /mde/ On 12/5/2014 10:57 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote: Some forums are more concerned about form than content. Everyone here is pretty focused on solving your problem rather than telling how to post it. If you look at the examples in my post, you will see that the type is pom for dependencies on libraries. We also use provided scope since we install the libraries once rather than include them with each upload of a war file since they generally don't change. We set the content of our libraries (jars and versions) at the beginning of a release cycle and don't change them for the duration of the release unless there is an emergency. This gives everyone a stable environment and once you have the libraries loaded into Tomcat, in our case, they do not change as the application gets worked on. This makes the testing go quicker since you are only replacing the war file that you are working on and the war file only contains the code that we write. I am not sure if this applies to your libraries. Ron On 05/12/2014 12:04 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: Ron, Thanks for the link. I'm attempting to do this with the shade plugin. I took a look at the JAR that the shade plugin generates with my configuration, and it seems to have the pom.xml files from which it was built, but not the reduced dependency pom.xml (or any pom.xml from the built / shaded artifact). This means that I have not configured the shade plugin properly to produce an artifact that can be consumed as if it was built without using the shade plugin. The entire list of dependencies for the WAR module: dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCoreServer/artifactId version${coreserver.version}/version /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCoreClient/artifactId version${coreclient.version}/version typewar/type /dependency dependency groupIdjavax.servlet/groupId
Re: Using shaded JAR as a dependency in a WAR module
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron, Thanks for the link. I'm attempting to do this with the shade plugin. I took a look at the JAR that the shade plugin generates with my configuration, and it seems to have the pom.xml files from which it was built, but not the reduced dependency pom.xml (or any pom.xml from the built / shaded artifact). This means that I have not configured the shade plugin properly to produce an artifact that can be consumed as if it was built without using the shade plugin. The entire list of dependencies for the WAR module: dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCoreServer/artifactId version${coreserver.version}/version /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCoreClient/artifactId version${coreclient.version}/version typewar/type /dependency dependency groupIdjavax.servlet/groupId artifactIdservlet-api/artifactId version2.5/version scopeprovided/scope /dependency dependency groupIdjavax.servlet.jsp/groupId artifactIdjsp-api/artifactId version2.1/version scopeprovided/scope /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdGlobalCalcWeb/artifactId version${globalweb.version}/version typewar/type /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIHomeWeb/artifactId version${ihome.version}/version typepom/type /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIFCResources/artifactId version1.0-SNAPSHOT/version /dependency /dependencies There could be as many as 50 components going into the final WAR file, so it would be nice to manage them in a more organized fashion (as well as reduce the clutter in WEB-INF/lib). All of the versions with properties have properties defined. The last dependency is the shaded JAR, and the one that is not behaving as expected (but probably as built / configured). The NetBeans graphical display of the dependencies shows IFCResources, as well as the three components it was shaded from. Sorry for the top-post. It seems to be the norm on this list, whereas the Tomcat mailing list explicitly mentions replying at the bottom. I didn't see any mention of posting style on the site. If posting at the bottom is the encouraged form, I'll be happy to do so. . . . just my two cents /mde/ On 12/4/2014 8:41 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: We do this all the time and it always works. http://blog.artifact-software.com/tech/?p=121 Aggregation jars make development simpler and wars smaller Partial dependencies for org.mdeggers:iforeclosure:1.0-SNAPSHOT:war dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIFCResources/artifactId version1.0-SNAPSHOT/version /dependency /dependencies What are the dependencies for the war file? Partial list is not much help. Ron On 04/12/2014 6:29 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: Folks, I admit it, I'm a bit confused (and relatively new to maven). Goal: To release a WAR file with a minimal number of JAR files in WEB-INF/lib. Thought: 1. Break up the WAR project into a WAR module and a JAR module 2. Make the WAR module be dependent on the JAR module 3. Use the Maven shade plugin in the JAR module to create a shaded JAR 4. Drive the entire project with an agregator pom.xml The JAR module does shade properly, creating a single JAR with all of the dependencies bundled into a single JAR. It uses a pom dependency to gather in most of its requirements. None of the JAR or pom dependencies have further dependencies, so the resulting JAR is self-contained. However, when I build the WAR file and reference the shaded JAR file as a dependency, I do not get the shaded JAR file in WEB-INF/lib. Instead, I get all of the dependencies as individual JAR files in WEB-INF/lib. I'm using the following environment (can post my complete pom.xml files if needed). OS:Fedora Linux 64 bit - latest updates JDK: 1.7.0_72 64 bit Maven: 3.2.3 maven-shade-plugin: 2.3 maven-war-plugin: 2.4 shade configuration and dependencies for org.mdeggers:IFCResources:1.0-SNAPSHOT properties calhost.version1.0-SNAPSHOT/calhost.version ihomeresources.version1.0-SNAPSHOT/ihomeresources.version /properties dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCalhost/artifactId version${calhost.version}/version /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIHomeResources/artifactId version${ihomeresources.version}/version typepom/type /dependency /dependencies plugin groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId artifactIdmaven-shade-plugin/artifactId version2.3/version executions execution idcombine/id phasepackage/phase goals goalshade/goal /goals configuration artifactSet includes
Re: Using shaded JAR as a dependency in a WAR module
Some forums are more concerned about form than content. Everyone here is pretty focused on solving your problem rather than telling how to post it. If you look at the examples in my post, you will see that the type is pom for dependencies on libraries. We also use provided scope since we install the libraries once rather than include them with each upload of a war file since they generally don't change. We set the content of our libraries (jars and versions) at the beginning of a release cycle and don't change them for the duration of the release unless there is an emergency. This gives everyone a stable environment and once you have the libraries loaded into Tomcat, in our case, they do not change as the application gets worked on. This makes the testing go quicker since you are only replacing the war file that you are working on and the war file only contains the code that we write. I am not sure if this applies to your libraries. Ron On 05/12/2014 12:04 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron, Thanks for the link. I'm attempting to do this with the shade plugin. I took a look at the JAR that the shade plugin generates with my configuration, and it seems to have the pom.xml files from which it was built, but not the reduced dependency pom.xml (or any pom.xml from the built / shaded artifact). This means that I have not configured the shade plugin properly to produce an artifact that can be consumed as if it was built without using the shade plugin. The entire list of dependencies for the WAR module: dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCoreServer/artifactId version${coreserver.version}/version /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCoreClient/artifactId version${coreclient.version}/version typewar/type /dependency dependency groupIdjavax.servlet/groupId artifactIdservlet-api/artifactId version2.5/version scopeprovided/scope /dependency dependency groupIdjavax.servlet.jsp/groupId artifactIdjsp-api/artifactId version2.1/version scopeprovided/scope /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdGlobalCalcWeb/artifactId version${globalweb.version}/version typewar/type /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIHomeWeb/artifactId version${ihome.version}/version typepom/type /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIFCResources/artifactId version1.0-SNAPSHOT/version /dependency /dependencies There could be as many as 50 components going into the final WAR file, so it would be nice to manage them in a more organized fashion (as well as reduce the clutter in WEB-INF/lib). All of the versions with properties have properties defined. The last dependency is the shaded JAR, and the one that is not behaving as expected (but probably as built / configured). The NetBeans graphical display of the dependencies shows IFCResources, as well as the three components it was shaded from. Sorry for the top-post. It seems to be the norm on this list, whereas the Tomcat mailing list explicitly mentions replying at the bottom. I didn't see any mention of posting style on the site. If posting at the bottom is the encouraged form, I'll be happy to do so. . . . just my two cents /mde/ On 12/4/2014 8:41 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: We do this all the time and it always works. http://blog.artifact-software.com/tech/?p=121 Aggregation jars make development simpler and wars smaller Partial dependencies for org.mdeggers:iforeclosure:1.0-SNAPSHOT:war dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIFCResources/artifactId version1.0-SNAPSHOT/version /dependency /dependencies What are the dependencies for the war file? Partial list is not much help. Ron On 04/12/2014 6:29 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: Folks, I admit it, I'm a bit confused (and relatively new to maven). Goal: To release a WAR file with a minimal number of JAR files in WEB-INF/lib. Thought: 1. Break up the WAR project into a WAR module and a JAR module 2. Make the WAR module be dependent on the JAR module 3. Use the Maven shade plugin in the JAR module to create a shaded JAR 4. Drive the entire project with an agregator pom.xml The JAR module does shade properly, creating a single JAR with all of the dependencies bundled into a single JAR. It uses a pom dependency to gather in most of its requirements. None of the JAR or pom dependencies have further dependencies, so the resulting JAR is self-contained. However, when I build the WAR file and reference the shaded JAR file as a dependency, I do not get the shaded JAR file in WEB-INF/lib. Instead, I get all of the dependencies as individual JAR files in
Re: Using shaded JAR as a dependency in a WAR module
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron and Stephen, Ron, we cannot use libraries installed into Tomcat's $CATALINA_BASE/lib directory for several reasons. While it's nice from a developer and deployment point of view, we do end up running multiple versions of the WAR file (with different versions of various dependencies) on the same Tomcat. We also release the WAR file, and it would be difficult to require people to modify their server environment. Thanks! I finally figured it out. 1. Issue number 1 I was using a POM artifact to aggregate a set of lower level libraries. In order to do this, I had to set the following in the shade plugin: promoteTransitiveDependenciestrue/promoteTransitiveDependencies This of course makes perfect sense. 2. Issue number 2 I needed to set the following: keepDependenciesWithProvidedScopetrue/keepDependenciesWithProvidedScope Both of these are mentioned (albeit not as clearly as it might be) in the fine documentation here: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/shade-mojo.html Combining those two creates a JAR with all of the dependency pom.xml files in it, as well as the classes / resources / etc. An examination of the target WAR file shows a nice, clean WEB-INF/lib with managed dependencies all the way down the chain. For those people interested, the dependencies and shade plugin configuration are given below. dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCalhost/artifactId version${calhost.version}/version /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIHomeResources/artifactId version${ihomeresources.version}/version typepom/type /dependency /dependencies build plugins plugin groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId artifactIdmaven-shade-plugin/artifactId version2.3/version executions execution idcombine/id phasepackage/phase goals goalshade/goal /goals configuration keepDependenciesWithProvidedScopetrue/keepDependenciesWithProvidedScope promoteTransitiveDependenciestrue/promoteTransitiveDependencies artifactSet includes includeorg.mdeggers:*/include /includes /artifactSet /configuration /execution /executions /plugin /plugins /build Sorry for the line length. Obviously, if you don't have any transitive dependencies, you won't need the promote line. It works. Hope this is the correct solution. . . . just my two cents /mde/ On 12/5/2014 10:57 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote: Some forums are more concerned about form than content. Everyone here is pretty focused on solving your problem rather than telling how to post it. If you look at the examples in my post, you will see that the type is pom for dependencies on libraries. We also use provided scope since we install the libraries once rather than include them with each upload of a war file since they generally don't change. We set the content of our libraries (jars and versions) at the beginning of a release cycle and don't change them for the duration of the release unless there is an emergency. This gives everyone a stable environment and once you have the libraries loaded into Tomcat, in our case, they do not change as the application gets worked on. This makes the testing go quicker since you are only replacing the war file that you are working on and the war file only contains the code that we write. I am not sure if this applies to your libraries. Ron On 05/12/2014 12:04 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: Ron, Thanks for the link. I'm attempting to do this with the shade plugin. I took a look at the JAR that the shade plugin generates with my configuration, and it seems to have the pom.xml files from which it was built, but not the reduced dependency pom.xml (or any pom.xml from the built / shaded artifact). This means that I have not configured the shade plugin properly to produce an artifact that can be consumed as if it was built without using the shade plugin. The entire list of dependencies for the WAR module: dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCoreServer/artifactId version${coreserver.version}/version /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCoreClient/artifactId version${coreclient.version}/version typewar/type /dependency dependency groupIdjavax.servlet/groupId artifactIdservlet-api/artifactId version2.5/version scopeprovided/scope /dependency dependency groupIdjavax.servlet.jsp/groupId artifactIdjsp-api/artifactId version2.1/version scopeprovided/scope /dependency dependency
Re: Using shaded JAR as a dependency in a WAR module
Great. I hope that the discussion was helpful even if you found a better solution. Ron On 05/12/2014 3:22 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron and Stephen, Ron, we cannot use libraries installed into Tomcat's $CATALINA_BASE/lib directory for several reasons. While it's nice from a developer and deployment point of view, we do end up running multiple versions of the WAR file (with different versions of various dependencies) on the same Tomcat. We also release the WAR file, and it would be difficult to require people to modify their server environment. Thanks! I finally figured it out. 1. Issue number 1 I was using a POM artifact to aggregate a set of lower level libraries. In order to do this, I had to set the following in the shade plugin: promoteTransitiveDependenciestrue/promoteTransitiveDependencies This of course makes perfect sense. 2. Issue number 2 I needed to set the following: keepDependenciesWithProvidedScopetrue/keepDependenciesWithProvidedScope Both of these are mentioned (albeit not as clearly as it might be) in the fine documentation here: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/shade-mojo.html Combining those two creates a JAR with all of the dependency pom.xml files in it, as well as the classes / resources / etc. An examination of the target WAR file shows a nice, clean WEB-INF/lib with managed dependencies all the way down the chain. For those people interested, the dependencies and shade plugin configuration are given below. dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCalhost/artifactId version${calhost.version}/version /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIHomeResources/artifactId version${ihomeresources.version}/version typepom/type /dependency /dependencies build plugins plugin groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId artifactIdmaven-shade-plugin/artifactId version2.3/version executions execution idcombine/id phasepackage/phase goals goalshade/goal /goals configuration keepDependenciesWithProvidedScopetrue/keepDependenciesWithProvidedScope promoteTransitiveDependenciestrue/promoteTransitiveDependencies artifactSet includes includeorg.mdeggers:*/include /includes /artifactSet /configuration /execution /executions /plugin /plugins /build Sorry for the line length. Obviously, if you don't have any transitive dependencies, you won't need the promote line. It works. Hope this is the correct solution. . . . just my two cents /mde/ On 12/5/2014 10:57 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote: Some forums are more concerned about form than content. Everyone here is pretty focused on solving your problem rather than telling how to post it. If you look at the examples in my post, you will see that the type is pom for dependencies on libraries. We also use provided scope since we install the libraries once rather than include them with each upload of a war file since they generally don't change. We set the content of our libraries (jars and versions) at the beginning of a release cycle and don't change them for the duration of the release unless there is an emergency. This gives everyone a stable environment and once you have the libraries loaded into Tomcat, in our case, they do not change as the application gets worked on. This makes the testing go quicker since you are only replacing the war file that you are working on and the war file only contains the code that we write. I am not sure if this applies to your libraries. Ron On 05/12/2014 12:04 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: Ron, Thanks for the link. I'm attempting to do this with the shade plugin. I took a look at the JAR that the shade plugin generates with my configuration, and it seems to have the pom.xml files from which it was built, but not the reduced dependency pom.xml (or any pom.xml from the built / shaded artifact). This means that I have not configured the shade plugin properly to produce an artifact that can be consumed as if it was built without using the shade plugin. The entire list of dependencies for the WAR module: dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCoreServer/artifactId version${coreserver.version}/version /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCoreClient/artifactId version${coreclient.version}/version typewar/type /dependency dependency groupIdjavax.servlet/groupId artifactIdservlet-api/artifactId version2.5/version scopeprovided/scope /dependency dependency
Re: Using shaded JAR as a dependency in a WAR module
DependencyReducedPom On Thursday, 4 December 2014, Mark Eggers its_toas...@yahoo.com.invalid wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, I admit it, I'm a bit confused (and relatively new to maven). Goal: To release a WAR file with a minimal number of JAR files in WEB-INF/lib. Thought: 1. Break up the WAR project into a WAR module and a JAR module 2. Make the WAR module be dependent on the JAR module 3. Use the Maven shade plugin in the JAR module to create a shaded JAR 4. Drive the entire project with an agregator pom.xml The JAR module does shade properly, creating a single JAR with all of the dependencies bundled into a single JAR. It uses a pom dependency to gather in most of its requirements. None of the JAR or pom dependencies have further dependencies, so the resulting JAR is self-contained. However, when I build the WAR file and reference the shaded JAR file as a dependency, I do not get the shaded JAR file in WEB-INF/lib. Instead, I get all of the dependencies as individual JAR files in WEB-INF/lib. I'm using the following environment (can post my complete pom.xml files if needed). OS:Fedora Linux 64 bit - latest updates JDK: 1.7.0_72 64 bit Maven: 3.2.3 maven-shade-plugin: 2.3 maven-war-plugin: 2.4 shade configuration and dependencies for org.mdeggers:IFCResources:1.0-SNAPSHOT properties calhost.version1.0-SNAPSHOT/calhost.version ihomeresources.version1.0-SNAPSHOT/ihomeresources.version /properties dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCalhost/artifactId version${calhost.version}/version /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIHomeResources/artifactId version${ihomeresources.version}/version typepom/type /dependency /dependencies plugin groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId artifactIdmaven-shade-plugin/artifactId version2.3/version executions execution idcombine/id phasepackage/phase goals goalshade/goal /goals configuration artifactSet includes includeorg.mdeggers:*/include /includes /artifactSet /configuration /execution /executions /plugin Partial dependencies for org.mdeggers:iforeclosure:1.0-SNAPSHOT:war dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIFCResources/artifactId version1.0-SNAPSHOT/version /dependency /dependencies Parent pom modules section: modules moduleIFCResources/module moduleiforeclosure/module /modules I'm obviously missing something here. Thoughts, corrections, pointers are all appreciated. I know, using a shaded JAR as a dependency is probably not best practice. However, the resulting WAR file is an end product and the shaded JAR only contains internal components from other web overlays used to build the final war. . . . just my (confused) 2 cents /mde/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUgO5LAAoJEEFGbsYNeTwt9YgIAKLuOll7rpDRI4Ea3ieshWgY HugkUrvaja1UZdKkFm0bdo4qQxUUmKHL9byHTQzPiLb6+WKeXaaQaMDvhA0DgbAp tJQ+4WKEPBzKx5MUvftY2oEiW8eVEnMIkZ6qLA0aPKxrenodlekz3eKlxJ/D8kxF dqf5UvncIYGNlzbThVlFaOpmp7FgF6dStrBDPuyGdhcLWpb4UkI/sVqo92/copnY tMR2uX9/Uscn+11pXlcTTg+YfGGwlguZIEkSBRlUBiAYMwiDG0fyDqRaVcv18BtS /iLB6hlB8xNkRArvIpDV+h7W2sHK6jekjzfCU80ZO72ZSgsiYUKMqWlY04GlPTU= =jCy7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from my phone
Re: Using shaded JAR as a dependency in a WAR module
We do this all the time and it always works. http://blog.artifact-software.com/tech/?p=121 Aggregation jars make development simpler and wars smaller Partial dependencies for org.mdeggers:iforeclosure:1.0-SNAPSHOT:war dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIFCResources/artifactId version1.0-SNAPSHOT/version /dependency /dependencies What are the dependencies for the war file? Partial list is not much help. Ron On 04/12/2014 6:29 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, I admit it, I'm a bit confused (and relatively new to maven). Goal: To release a WAR file with a minimal number of JAR files in WEB-INF/lib. Thought: 1. Break up the WAR project into a WAR module and a JAR module 2. Make the WAR module be dependent on the JAR module 3. Use the Maven shade plugin in the JAR module to create a shaded JAR 4. Drive the entire project with an agregator pom.xml The JAR module does shade properly, creating a single JAR with all of the dependencies bundled into a single JAR. It uses a pom dependency to gather in most of its requirements. None of the JAR or pom dependencies have further dependencies, so the resulting JAR is self-contained. However, when I build the WAR file and reference the shaded JAR file as a dependency, I do not get the shaded JAR file in WEB-INF/lib. Instead, I get all of the dependencies as individual JAR files in WEB-INF/lib. I'm using the following environment (can post my complete pom.xml files if needed). OS:Fedora Linux 64 bit - latest updates JDK: 1.7.0_72 64 bit Maven: 3.2.3 maven-shade-plugin: 2.3 maven-war-plugin: 2.4 shade configuration and dependencies for org.mdeggers:IFCResources:1.0-SNAPSHOT properties calhost.version1.0-SNAPSHOT/calhost.version ihomeresources.version1.0-SNAPSHOT/ihomeresources.version /properties dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdCalhost/artifactId version${calhost.version}/version /dependency dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIHomeResources/artifactId version${ihomeresources.version}/version typepom/type /dependency /dependencies plugin groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId artifactIdmaven-shade-plugin/artifactId version2.3/version executions execution idcombine/id phasepackage/phase goals goalshade/goal /goals configuration artifactSet includes includeorg.mdeggers:*/include /includes /artifactSet /configuration /execution /executions /plugin Partial dependencies for org.mdeggers:iforeclosure:1.0-SNAPSHOT:war dependencies dependency groupIdorg.mdeggers/groupId artifactIdIFCResources/artifactId version1.0-SNAPSHOT/version /dependency /dependencies Parent pom modules section: modules moduleIFCResources/module moduleiforeclosure/module /modules I'm obviously missing something here. Thoughts, corrections, pointers are all appreciated. I know, using a shaded JAR as a dependency is probably not best practice. However, the resulting WAR file is an end product and the shaded JAR only contains internal components from other web overlays used to build the final war. . . . just my (confused) 2 cents /mde/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUgO5LAAoJEEFGbsYNeTwt9YgIAKLuOll7rpDRI4Ea3ieshWgY HugkUrvaja1UZdKkFm0bdo4qQxUUmKHL9byHTQzPiLb6+WKeXaaQaMDvhA0DgbAp tJQ+4WKEPBzKx5MUvftY2oEiW8eVEnMIkZ6qLA0aPKxrenodlekz3eKlxJ/D8kxF dqf5UvncIYGNlzbThVlFaOpmp7FgF6dStrBDPuyGdhcLWpb4UkI/sVqo92/copnY tMR2uX9/Uscn+11pXlcTTg+YfGGwlguZIEkSBRlUBiAYMwiDG0fyDqRaVcv18BtS /iLB6hlB8xNkRArvIpDV+h7W2sHK6jekjzfCU80ZO72ZSgsiYUKMqWlY04GlPTU= =jCy7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org -- Ron Wheeler President Artifact Software Inc email: rwhee...@artifact-software.com skype: ronaldmwheeler phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org