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vkumars
vkumars

Reputation: 173

maven - how to exclude an entire module on from war

I have the following Maven project structure:

sub-projectC and sub-projectD need to have sub-projectB as a dependency. But the war built by sub-projectC and sub-projectD should not include the dependencies of sub-projectB. The jar will be included separately later in the classpath (this is because sub-projectB is large jar >100MB and packaging it with the war will be very expensive both in terms of size and time it takes to copy the war from one location to another during deployment).

How do I exclude the dependencies of sub-projectB from the war package of sub-projectC and sub-projectD?

One way to do it is to exclude the list of jars in the maven-war-plugin. But we have to specify each and every jar names or use wild-card. We can not exclude a sub-module dependencies directly. Is there an easier way to do it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 336

Answers (1)

Tunaki
Tunaki

Reputation: 137259

This is exactly what the scope provided is for. Each dependency with this scope will be used at compile-time but it will not be included in the final war (because it is provided by the run-time container).

As such, the dependency to sub-projectB should be, in sub-projectC and sub-projectD pom:

<dependency>
    <groupId>...</groupId>
    <artifactId>sub-projectB</artifactId>
    <version>...</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Upvotes: 3

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