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Reputation: 1088

Excluding jars of dependency project during ant build

am working on a java project where am using ant as build tool.

Suppose I have two projects X and Y and both are interdependent. Am looking for some thing where I can exclude some jars during the build i.e, when I build the project A it should exclude some jars during the build and while creating the war.

I know that if we want to include and exclude jars from the classpath we give 

    <include> and <exclude>

in build.xml file. But how do we do it when we want to include or exclude the jars which are outside the project.

Any help is appreciated.

I referred to the below one, but could not get any idea. Excluding jars from dynamically generated classpaths?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2595

Answers (1)

user2821894
user2821894

Reputation: 1088

Finally I was able to find a solution to my question. Am posting the answer thinking it might be useful for someone in the future. I was able to make it work using the <exclude>task. Below is the code snippet.

<target>
 <delete dir="${dest.dir}" failonerror="false" /> 
      <mkdir dir="${dest.dir}" />
  <war destfile="${package.file}" webxml="${temp.dir.web-inf}/web.xml" basedir="${temp.dir}">
    <fileset dir="${pages.dir}"/>
    <lib dir="${lib.dir}">
        <exclude name="servlet-api.jar"/>
        <include name="de.vogella.build.test.ant.jar"/>
    </lib>
    <classes dir="${temp.dir.classes}" />
  </war>
</target>

The reason it did not work for me in the beginning was i did not include any <delete> task which would delete the war file each time the project is built. So the old war file was not replaced and it was not showing me any changes. Once I included the delete it started deleting the previous build war file and updating with a new one which worked extremely fine.

Upvotes: 1

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