Wendy is right. Provided scope is not the solution.

/Anders

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 14:46, Wendy Smoak <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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