I am new to Maven and am trying to understand transitive dependencies
and how to exclude them from my war.
For example, in my war file, FastInfoset-1.2.2.jar file is included. I
do not have it listed as a dependency in my POM, so it must be a
transitive dependency. I ran mvn with the -X parameter and saved the
output to a file to see if I could glean which dependency is the
"mother" dependency.
The first time FastInfoset is noted in the output follows:
[WARNING]
Artifact javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.4:provided
retains local scope 'provided' overriding broader scope 'compile'
given by a dependency. If this is not intended, modify
or remove the local scope.
[DEBUG] javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.3:compile (removed -
nearer found: 2.4)
[DEBUG] commons-logging:commons-logging-api:jar:1.1:compile
(selected for compile)
[DEBUG] javax.el:el-api:jar:1.0:compile (selected for compile)
[DEBUG] com.sun.xml.fastinfoset:FastInfoset:jar:1.2.2:compile
(selected for compile)
Does this mean that it is a transitive dependency of the
servlet-api.jar? If not, how can I determine which dependency this is a
transitive one of?
In my POM.xml, here is the servlet-api dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
The servlet-api.jar is not included in my war (as expected). Do I have
to add exclusions to this dependency for all its transitive
dependencies? I would have expected that transitive dependencies would
be included/excluded as per the mother dependency.
Thanks in advance!
