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naamadheya
naamadheya

Reputation: 2492

maven-rar-plugin includes all Dependencies with configuration set to false

I am using maven-rar-plugin and following is my configuration in POM file. includeDependencies is set to false. But all the dependent and dependent project's sub dependencies are all packaged into rar.

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-rar-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.4</version>
    <configuration>
        <raXmlFile>src/main/resources/META-INF/ra.xml</raXmlFile>
        <includeDependencies>false</includeDependencies>
        <archive>
            <addMavenDescriptor>true</addMavenDescriptor>
        </archive>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

I cannot use exclusion in dependencies as it would lead to compilatin errors.

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fi.ps</groupId>
        <artifactId>frm-fl</artifactId>
        <version>${project.version}</version>   
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Is this a bug in the Maven plugin or is there a different way of configuring for rar packaging?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1401

Answers (1)

Tunaki
Tunaki

Reputation: 137064

There is no includeDependencies parameter for the maven-rar-plugin and, from reading the source code, it isn't currently possible to exclude dependencies of the project. A possible work-around would be to declare the dependencies to exclude with the provided scope: they will be present during compilation but excluded when building the RAR file.

But why do you want to exclude dependencies in the first place? The maven-rar-plugin is used to build a Resource Adapter Archive file for the Java 2 Connector Architecture. Dependencies are supposed to be included, otherwise it won't work. Beware that, as stated in the FAQ, this plugin does not create compressed file like WinRar.

Upvotes: 1

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