Hello Manjiri,
as far as I am aware ant is able to create the classpath attribute for a
manifest file using a manifestclasspath task.
I understand that the application that you are working on is depending upon a
jar file which packages an implementation of spring which you do not want to
use.
Assuming this jar file is called badspring.jar here is what I would do
<manifestclasspath property=“myclasspath”>
<classpath>
<fileset dir=“lib”>
<include name=“*.jar”/>
<exclude name=“badspring.jar”/>
</fileset>
<pathelement location=“lib/badspring.jar”/>
</classpath>
</manifestclasspath>
This way you make sure that lib/badspring.jar is at the end of the classpath
element in the manifest.
Another suggestion would be to repackage badspring.jar without the offending
classes and store that in your repository under a different org than the
original.
Regards,
Antoine
[1] http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/manifestclasspath.html
On May 15, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Ahire, Manjiri <manjiri.ah...@blackrock.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to understand how Ivy when used in configuration with Ant, builds
> the dependency tree / manifest.mf file at runtime?
> May be you can point me to documentation. I have been facing a spring version
> conflict issue and tried to use override, force, conflict-manager stuff and
> it didn’t work for me. (it works in Eclispe but not when I deploy)
>
> Also, just so you know the conflicting jar is not named as Spring , its some
> third party jar in which those people have packaged the spring classes. Can’t
> get rid of it.
>
> Please let me know. Appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Manjiri.
>
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