Tip about Skinny Wars

[Arnaud HERITIER]

Hi all,

  I would like to share with you a workaround I found for the problem of
transitive dependencies in skinny wars.
  In the documentation it is said that :
 "Now the painful part.  Your EAR's <<<pom.xml>>> needs to list every
dependency that the WAR has.
 This is because Maven assumes fat WARs and does not include transitive
dependencies
 of WARs within the EAR."

  A workaround of this is to define for each war 2 dependencies. One for the
war itself and another for the war's pom to retrieve transitive
dependencies.
  With that you'll have something like that in your ear dependencies :

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.acme</groupId>
            <artifactId>war1</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0</version>
            <type>war</type>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.acme</groupId>
            <artifactId>war1</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0</version>
            <type>pom</type>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

I'm using maven 2.0.9.

I'll do more tests tomorrow and I'll update the doc :
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/skinny-wars.html

Cheers

arnaud