Hi,
I've seen people ask this or a similar question before but I don't think
it has ever been answered. If it has then can some kind soul point me in
the right direction?
Here's the situation:
I have an EAR and a WAR inside the EAR. The EAR also contains JARs. So
here's a directory structure:
projectEAR
|--- moduleA.jar
|--- moduleB.jar
|--- JSPs.war
|--- WEB-INF
|--- lib
|--- moduleC.jar
|--- moduleD.jar
Now, let's say that moduleB and moduleC depends on moduleA. Thus, moduleA
has to be in the EAR so that both moduleB and C can find it without
duplicating moduleA in the WAR. So now, in my pom file for the WAR, the
dependencies contain moduleC and moduleD but since moduleC depends on
moduleA, moduleA automatically gets included in the WAR. This duplication
is something I don't want. I add an exclusion to exclude moduleA but now
it doesn't show up in the manifest classpath.
Since we can't use custom manifest files with the maven-war-plugin, I need
to update the manifest manually after building. So I want to get away
from manually updating, I want to know if there's a way to add classpath
entries to the manifest without including the actual jar since the jar is
already located in the EAR. Is there a way to do this? I've tried
different scope settings for the dependencies but they don't seem to work.
Is there something wrong with my structure? All of my problems could be
solved if the war plugin supports custom manifest files like the jar
plugin does.
_Mang Lau
