Many projects in the m2 repository don't specify <scope> and <optional> properly for all their dependencies, so you can get a lot of extra jars.
What I've done to solve this is create our own remote repository which has pom files to override ones like that in ibiblio. Alvarado, Juan wrote: > Is there any way that when a dependency is configured, just that dependency > is downloaded and nothing else. It seems that with just a few dependencies > on a project, my lib folder in my war is growing way too big with jars that > I don't even need i.e. servlet-api-2.4.jar. I read the transitive > dependency stuff on the m2 site, but I really don't follow it too well. My > project consists of mainly struts, spring and hibernate. > > I tried the following: > > <exclusions> > <exclusion> > <groupId>servlet</groupId> > <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId> > </exclusion> > </exclusions> > > But it still copied the jar into the lib folder of the war. I am more > comfortable using maven 1, but I wanted to move over to m2, but I seem to be > spending way too much time trying to figure out this whole transitive > dependency stuff and less time configuring my project. > > I am open to any suggestions. > > Thanks > > Juan A. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Dave Brondsema Software Developer Cornerstone University
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