Well, far be it from me to contradict an authority, but I can offer an alternative.
If there is some good reason to treat all those jars as a lump, and if none of your code that you are compiling depends on having them in the compilation classpath, you *can* create an artifact for them with the assembly plugin, and then unpack it into the WAR with the overlay mechanism. Your message gives me no reason to believe that this is the right thing to do in your particular case as opposed to listing out all the dependencies. You might want to look at dependency inheritance (scope=pom) as a way of factoring this list of 20 things into one place. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 August 2010 17:01, Alexander Vaysberg <w...@vaisberg.de> wrote: > >> Am 30.08.2010 17:25, schrieb mdurrani: >> >> I would like to copy all jars from a lib folder into my war file. I can do >>> it >>> by listing a dependency tag for each of them but I don't want to put 20 >>> dependency tags in my pom. Is there any way where I can just reference a >>> lib >>> folder and say to copy all these files to the war? >>> >>> > Use ANT. > > The Maven way is to list the dependencies... if you don't want to list > dependencies, then don't use Maven. > > -Stephen > > P.S. Sorry if this sounds blunt, but Maven is opinionated software and this > is a core opinion > > >> /lib/ >>> 1.jar >>> 2.jar >>> 3.jar >>> 4.jar >>> .. >>> 20.jar >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> The first you must read more info for Maven(Book for Sonotype). >> Dependencies must be in the pom.xml. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
