Thanks for that. I now have the dbutility project getting all the required components exported into the executable jar but for one tiny thing.
The META-INF/persistence.xml from the EJB project is a context for use in an EAR; it references a JNDI connection pool. The one in the dbutility project is under a different name, connection parameters, and has the <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create" /> statement so that Hibernate validates my mappings, exports the schema, and initializes some tables. So, in the dbutility's assembly.xml file, I listed: <sources> <fileSets> <fileSet> <excludes> <exclude>%ant[**/persistence.xml]</exclude> </excludes> </fileSet> </fileSets> </sources> on the EJB project's moduleSet so its persistence.xml is NOT included and the one from the dbutility's moduleSet IS included from the next moduleSet. The build runs w/o errors, but the exclusion is NOT happening. On Dec 18, 2018, at 01:19 AM, Anders Hammar <[email protected]> wrote: It is possible to change the scope of a transitive dependency by defining the artifact in dependencyManagement where you also specify the desired scope. /Anders On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 5:08 AM Arnold Morein <[email protected]> wrote: I have created a series of POM files: master-pom - contains all the various libraries, versions, scopes under the dependencyManagement section. Then I created webapp-pom - contains a subset of those libraries, specific to building web applications, also under the dependencyManagement section. I then defined a specific EJB project (ee-cdi-webapp) based on webapp-pom that defines functionality desired in all applications. The dependencies are under dependencies section however. This project will become a required module in all EAR type projects. Then the main project is defined with ee-cdi-webapp as the the parent; it contains an EAR, EJB and WAR modules. The EAR, EJB, and WAR projects are building and deploying just fine. I then added a tiny dbutility project with a special class (and a main class to invoke it) to instantiate and therein test my Hibernate mappings, and initialize the database. This project has to be built into an executable jar. I then created an assembly project for the dbuility project so that only the desired persistence.xml file is included. It builds the executable jar just fine, but MOST of the resources from the dbuility project are all still in the PROVIDED scope. I do not understand how to forcibly change the scope of the inherited dependencies to COMPILE this far down stream. Can anyone offer any guidance?
