I have a subproject with a war spec that looks like this:
war {
from('resources') {
include '*.properties'
into 'WEB-INF/classes/'
}
webXml = file('src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml')
}
Works great. Creates a single, fat war file that is deployable to Tomcat. Problem is, when deploying to TomEE and JBoss, I run into conflicts (ie with Javax Servlet, Jersey, etc). So I want to exclude a set of jars from being war'd. I looked at the Gradle war documentation, and it looks like I need to use excludes for this. I tried it two different ways, and the jars are not excluded from the war:
war {
// copy properties file in classes so that
// they may be loaded from classpath
from('resources') {
include '*.properties'
into 'WEB-INF/classes/'
}
// specify web xml
webXml = file('src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml')
// remove jars that conflict with TomEE
exclude '**/javax.inject-1.jar'
exclude '**/javax.servlet-2.5.0.v201103041518.jar'
exclude '**/servlet-api-2.5.jar'
exclude '**/validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar'
}
This is in a subproject (karyon-examples) within the NetFlix/karyon project hosted on github. The dependencies in the subproject look like this:
dependencies {
compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.0'
runtime 'org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.7.0'
compile project(':karyon-extensions')
compile project(':karyon-admin-web')
}
And I want to avoid editing things like compile versus runtime dependencies, especially in other files and subprojects. In fact the jars I am trying to exclude above are benign when running with jetty and regular tomcat.
I simply want to exclude these jars without complicating the build scripts. What am I missing?
Thanks
the obvious way to go is to move the dependencies you don't want to have in your war from the compile
configuration to providedCompile
and from runtime
to providedRuntime
. the provided configurations are added to your build when the war plugin is applied.
One other note on your snippet above: I think the exclude does not work because you referencing the target path in your exclude statements instead you should just reference it by /servlet-api-2.5.jar
.