Especially if you use Spring XML configuration, it's impossible for the Dependency Plugin to figure out you need this-or-that Spring jar. The best you can do, actually, is use the new Spring Java Config so that your configuration is code and thus able to be statically analyzed.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:54 PM, laredotornado-3 <laredotorn...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > This may fall into the "How the hell is Maven supposed to know?" category, > but one of the dependencies that dependency:analyze lists when I run it on > my WAR project is > > [WARNING] Unused declared dependencies found: > ... > [WARNING] > > org.springframework.security:spring-security-taglibs:jar:3.1.1.RELEASE:compile > > However, when I comment this out of my pom, a few of my JSPs die with the > error > > org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: > http://www.springframework.org/security/tags cannot be resolved in either > web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application > > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:51) > > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:409) > > > org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:116) > > because the JSP includes this > > <%@ taglib prefix="sec" > uri="http://www.springframework.org/security/tags"%> > > Anyway, not sure if the plugin can be configured to detect these kind of > things, but a guy can dream, can't he?? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Why-is-dependency-analyze-lying-to-me-tp5784108p5784691.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Cheers, Paul
