Just to clarify what I am after here is to have the tomcat dependencies included at compile time (for both eclipse WTP and maven compile:compile) but not included in the .war .
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Murray Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Was wondering how you specify compile time dependencies but have those jars > excluded from the final build? > > I want to have a dependency on the tomcat runtime libraries. I can do this > in eclipse by clicking properties --> java build path --> Add Library. > > Eclipse then stops complaining about being unable to find (eg) > javax.servlet.http etc, and when m2eclipse WTP plugin deploys to the server > all is well. > > I do not want these dependencies included in my war because they are > already present in my tomcat/lib directory and I have had big troubles when > trying to include them because of this. > > However when i run the compiler:compile goal manually, it now complains > about not being able to locate these classes. > > So I have a situation where I can deploy my app with the WTP plugin, but > cant run the maven compile goal, and what i want is to have the jars present > at compile time but not present in my war. Im still new to maven - there > must be a way to do this. > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks > Murray. >
