I found out why my maven jar is much bigger. It looks like it's including a dependency jar inside the SNAPSHOT jar. I installed this jar locally so I can compile but now it's being included in the build itself. So how do I exclude it when I do a mvn package ?
-----Original Message----- From: Tobias Hochgürtel [mailto:tobias.hochguer...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 3:35 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: maven jar versus ant jar You can unpack the jar files to see what they include. This should help you to find out what they makes fat or slimmer as the other one. HTH Tobias Am 01.09.2015 um 22:29 schrieb Magnanao, Hector: > I was finally able to build my snapshot jar using maven after going thru all > the missing dependencies. But what I noticed is that the maven jar is much > larger than my ant jar. Can anybody tell me why this is so ? Should they be > different in sizes after converting the build to maven ? what should I be > looking for causes of differences ? > > Hector Magnanao Jr. > SCM Analyst > > Fieldglass, Inc. > O: (331) 702-6142 > M: (773) 474-3051 > hector.magna...@sap.com > www.fieldglass.com > > Fieldglass is now part of SAP > > This email contains confidential information. If you are not the intended > recipient, do not read, distribute or reproduce this transmission (including > any attachments). If you have received this email in error, please notify the > sender by email reply. > > -- Tobias Hochgürtel Tobias Hochgürtel Alt-Stralau 15 10245 Berlin Tel. 03029 0493-39 Fax 03026 9488-22 E-Mail: tobias.hochguer...@googlemail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org