Hi, According to chapter 9.6.1 of the Sonatype 'Maven: The Definitive Guide', I bundled some libraries in a separate pom project, hoping that I could easily add them to my projects. Unfortunately some of the libraries have the 'provided' scope (they are needed at compile time, but must not be included in the war file) and thus are not available at compile time, resulting in a build failure. (Indeed, as promised, they are also not included in the war).
I understand (chapter 9.4.1 of the same book) that this is the correct behaviour, but it is a nuisance. I like the idea of grouping dependencies to make the pom files more comprehensibe, but the available solution is not suitable for us. Is there a way around or another way to group libraries / dependencies? (except for excluding the specific jars in the war configuration). Ciao Aino
