How to exclude a package from compile

[Peter Horlock]

Hi,

I've got a java package (along with the jar dependencies it uses) that I do
not want to be added to the war file we send to our client. Also, I do not
want the pom.xml to be part of the war file.

(This is the default, the devevelopment war file is build by using a
profile).
I tried this:

    <build>
        <resources>
      <resource>

<directory>${basedir}/src/main/java/com/package1/package2/package3/**</directory>
            <excludes>
                        <exclude>*.*</exclude>
          </excludes>
      </resource>
      <resource>
        <directory>${basedir}/**</directory>
        <excludes>
                    <exclude>pom.xml</exclude>
          </excludes>
        </resource>

However, this doesn't work! :-(

I also tried this:
      <pluginManagement>
         <plugins>
            <plugin>
               <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
               <version>2.0.2</version>
               <configuration>
                  <source>${javaVersion}</source>
                  <target>${javaVersion}</target>
                   <excludes>

<exclude>${basedir}/src/main/java/com/package1/package2/package3/**</exclude>
                       <exclude>**/pom.xml</exclude>
                   </excludes>
               </configuration>
            </plugin>

However, this neither worked! :-(

Last but not least - when I get this to work - I have a dependency that is
only used by the package I want to remove anyway -
so I can simply remove this dependency too, or how??


Thanks in advance!

Peter