Mike: How responsive were the "war-plugin" folks when you made suggestions about the overlays? I've been on and off the other lists so I lost the history so to speak. I feel like you deeply understand the needs of "todays" web packaging and some umph.. in diplomacy might help things. I'm beginning to see that Matt can't do all things but we should try to help Matt say the words maybe on this one. Doesn't it seem like we need the help a lot from the other groups? That means this stuff is out there.
You may be changing the future of WAR packaging. It's truly a different way of doing things. And, maybe the Maven folks, didn't see overlays (transitive needs) when they designed the optional tag. Inversion of Library needs (IOL) ... write it down and don't let Fowler have the coined acronym. David On 1/7/07, Michael Horwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
