I'm currently in Maven dependency hell, with a WAR file that is huge due to loads of useless third party library dependencies. The WAR plugin web site is next to useless, with the two most promising links "With war dependencies" and "Filtering war dependencies" both returning 404 errors.
As an aside, the link for "With war dependencies" should be: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/example-overlay.html ^ not http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/example/example-overlay.html Although the corresponding page is empty. The link for the other page: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/example-webappdependency-filtering.html Doesn't exist in the source repository... Anyway, how do I get rid of the dependencies that I don't want...? I'm not prepared to add any thing to the main <dependencies> section of my pom.xml files as these dependencies have nothing to do with my project. With the assembly descriptor I can at least specify and <excludes> section with <exclude>${groupId}:${artifactId}</exclude> tags to get rid of things. How do I do the same with the WAR plugin...? The war:war documentation suggests that there is a <dependentWarExcludes> tag, but doesn't give any examples and the comment "The comma separated list of tokens to exclude when doing a way overlay." is totally unhelpful. Is that supposed to be: <dependentWarExcludes>dependency1.jar,dependency2.jar</dependentWarExcludes> or <dependentWarExcludes>${groupId}:${artifactId},${groupId}:${artifactId}</dependentWarExcludes> ??? Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, P.S. Is there a tool to show me where all the dependencies come form...? i.e. a graphing tool or something that shows what is a dependency of what. -- Bob Arnott --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
