[m2] war plugin - need dependencies referenced in manifest but not in WEB-INF/lib

[Arthur Crawford]

Hi,
Is there a way to create a war with references to dependent jars in the 
manifest's classpath entry but NOT package them in WEB-INF/lib?.  I want 
to do this so I can have sevaral wars referencing the same shared jars 
in the top level of an ear.

This is the war plugin configuration I have used to turn on manifest 
generation.

           <plugin>
               <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
               <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
               <version>2.0</version>
               <configuration>
                   <archive>
                       <manifest>
                           <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                       </manifest>
                   </archive>
               </configuration>
           </plugin>

Then I have tried <scope>provided</scope>.  But although the jars are 
omitted from WEB-INF/lib as I want, neither do they appear the 
manifest.  Scope compile puts everything in the manifest but also in 
WEB-INF/lib.  Scope runtime has the same effect as scope compile (in 
this context).

I have looked through all the documentation and posts I can find on this 
but have seen no solution.  It seems like a common thing to want to do 
when packaging shared code in wars/ears.  If it's not possible with 
Maven out-of-the-box does anyone have any suggested fix or workaround?

I'm using Maven version 2.0.4 - war plugin version 2.0

Regards,

Arthur Crawford.

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