My workaround is more a hack that something else. It's not really logical to have in a project to dependencies to a pom and a war of a same artifact. This is certainly a bug in the core of maven which doesn't support it :-( I'm trying to see how I can change the ear plugin to fix this issue.
Arnaud On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Martin Höller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Arnaud! > > I think I found one BIG problem with your workaround: it only works if you > already have (the latest version of) your WAR's pom.xml file in the > repository, otherwise maven 2.0.9 reports a missing dependency. > > So this approach is not useable with the maven-release-plugin :-( > > I made up a simple test project consisting of a parent and three modules: > myJar, myWar, and myEar. myEar depends on myWar and myWar depends on myJar. > With your approach and an empty repository the build fails due to a missing > myWar:pom dependency. > > As I think this list doesn't allow attachments I've made the sample > available at > http://www.xss.co.at/~martin/tmp/m2-skinny-war-demo.tar.bz2<http://www.xss.co.at/%7Emartin/tmp/m2-skinny-war-demo.tar.bz2> > > A 'mvn package' fails, while a 'mvn install' succeeds. > > Any comments? > > - martin > > On Tuesday 03 June 2008 Arnaud HERITIER wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to share with you a workaround I found for the problem of > > transitive dependencies in skinny wars. > > In the documentation it is said that : > > "Now the painful part. Your EAR's <<<pom.xml>>> needs to list every > > dependency that the WAR has. > > This is because Maven assumes fat WARs and does not include transitive > > dependencies > > of WARs within the EAR." > > > > A workaround of this is to define for each war 2 dependencies. One for > > the war itself and another for the war's pom to retrieve transitive > > dependencies. > > With that you'll have something like that in your ear dependencies : > > > > <dependencies> > > <dependency> > > <groupId>com.acme</groupId> > > <artifactId>war1</artifactId> > > <version>1.0.0</version> > > <type>war</type> > > </dependency> > > <dependency> > > <groupId>com.acme</groupId> > > <artifactId>war1</artifactId> > > <version>1.0.0</version> > > <type>pom</type> > > </dependency> > > </dependencies> > > > > I'm using maven 2.0.9. > > > > I'll do more tests tomorrow and I'll update the doc : > > > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/skinny-wars.htm > >l > > > > Cheers > > > > arnaud > > >
