On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Jesse Farinacci <[email protected]> wrote:

> The scope=provided instructs Maven to not actually bring that
> dependency into the classpath, thus, it behaves as a global exclude.

My understanding of 'provided' is that it *does* go on the classpath
for compilation, but it is not transitive (and does not get packaged).

The typical use is for the Servlet API in your .war file -- you need
it to compile, but you don't want it in WEB-INF/lib because the
container will provide it.

http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html

-- 
Wendy

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