Can’t these resources be packaged in plain JARs and added as a regular 
dependency to the applications that require them, instead of using WAR overlays?

Nils.

> Op 19 dec 2023, om 06:53 heeft Mark Eggers <its_toas...@yahoo.com.INVALID> 
> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> I have several artifacts that consist of WAR archives with no server 
> component.
> 
> In other words, there are only HTML, CSS, JS, JSP, images, fonts, etc.files 
> in these artifacts. There are no servlets, listeners, POJOs, resources, etc. 
> in these artifacts.
> 
> These artifacts are used as overlays in other projects to keep common 
> components managed.
> 
> When a dependency report is run using these artifacts, there is an error 
> along the lines of:
> 
> [ERROR] Artifact groupId:artifactId:war:version caused IOException:
> 
> [FILE_LOCATION]/classes  (The system cannot find the file specified)
> 
> -- stack trace --
> 
> Well this is obvious, since the WAR artifacts used as an overlay have no 
> WEB-INF/classes directories.
> 
> Is there a way to exclude these artifacts  from dependency checking for 
> projects that consume them? Or do I just live with the error messages in 
> site:site (the site builds correctly).
> 
> I'm using maven-project-info-reports-plugin 3.5.0 with a variety of Maven 
> versions (3.6.3, 3.9.6), and a variety of JDKs (8, 11, 17).
> 
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Mark
> /mde/
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