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Forkmohit
Forkmohit

Reputation: 753

Excluding .java from a jar present in a WAR

I got two maven projects, P1 requires P2's java-sources at compile time. So, I have included sources in the P2's jar, to be included as dependency in P1's pom. How do I exclude those .java files from final war creation?

Or, is there a better way to package P1's jar?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 100

Answers (1)

dunni
dunni

Reputation: 44545

A better way would be to create and deploy a separate JAR with sources for P2 and add this as a dependency for the GWT compile in P1.

For the sources JAR have a look at the maven-sources-plugin.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.4</version>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <id>attach-sources</id>
        <phase>verify</phase>
        <goals>
          <goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>

If you add this in the build section of your POM, the build will create a separate JAR with the classifier 'sources'.

You can then add this artifact to the maven GWT compiler plugin as dependency:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.7.0</version>
    <compileSourcesArtifacts>
      <compileSourcesArtifact>your.groupId:artifactId</compileSourcesArtifact>
    </compileSourcesArtifacts>
  </plugin>

Upvotes: 1

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