War plugin does not include optional dependencies in WEB-INF/lib

[Michael Horwitz]

Hi,

I was surprised to find recently that the war plugin explicitly excludes all
dependencies marked as optional from the WEB-INF/lib directory. Surely the
optional tag on a dependency relates purely to transitive inheritance of
dependencies between projects and all dependencies on the runtime classpath
(which includes optional dependencies) should be included in WEB-INF/lib?

Thanks

Mike Horwitz