Read this: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/skinny-wars.html
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am currently having some trouble with the war plugin and > could need > some help. > The issue is about the manifest file and adding the dependent jar to > its classpath BUT excluding it from the WEB-INF/lib folder. > > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/war- > manifest-guide.html > > I already read the war-manifest-guide and set the attribute > <optional>true</optional> in the dependency. Having done this, the > manifest file is being written absolutely correct. All the jars are > being placed into the classpath. > But the jars as well are being placed into the WEB-INF/lib folder > which I expected not to happen, regarding the three cases at the > bottom of the guide. > > The dependency I use is a pom that wraps all the dependent > jars together. > > <dependency> > > <groupId>com.example.eap</groupId> > > <artifactId>EAP_3rd-party_Library</artifactId> > > <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> > <type>pom</type> > <optional>true</optional> > </dependency> > > The reason why I am doing this is that I have an EAR as the > top level > artifact that is being created. Within this EAR I have three > WARs that > all do use the same dependencies and need to share them. > That?s why I > want to set those jars to optional in the WARs and reinclude them in > the EAR. > > > > This does all work perfectly fine except that the jars are being > placed into the WEB-INF/lib though set to optional in the pom. > I already tried to set the dependencie to provided aswell, but this > just acted as if I had set only the provided scope. No jars in > WEB-INF/lib BUT no Classpath inclusion in manifest file aswell. > > Does anyone have an idea or suggenstion how I could fix this > or what I > might be doing wrong? > > > Thank you for any help, > Alexander > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
