[MEAR-148] In an ear which has skinny wars, want to include the same jar in shared lib of ear as well as in the war

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Auto Closed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tejas Pajai
• Created: 23/Feb/12 09:15
• Updated: 16/Mar/18 22:40
• Resolved: 16/Mar/18 22:40

Description

I have the following artifacts

MyWar1.war depends on MyJar.jar and SomeThirdParty.jar
MyWar2.war depends on MyJar.jar
MyJar.jar also depends on SomeThirdParty.jar

Now I want to create an ear with MyWar1 and MyWar2, and I want to make them skinny wars so that MyJar.jar should not be included in both the wars.
For some reason, the SomeThirdParty.jar has to be in the WEB-INF/lib directory of MyWar1.war

Here is the structure I want:

MyEar.ear
- lib
    - MyJar.jar
    - SomeThirdParty.jar
- MyWar1.war
    - WEB-INF/lib/SomeThirdParty.jar
- MyWar1.war

As you can see, I want the SomeThirdParty.jar in MyWar1 as well as in the lib directory.
Is there any way to achieve it if I am using <skinnyWars>true</skinnyWars>?

If not, we should have some way of doing this, maybe by supporting nested <dependencies> in the <webmodule> tag which would override the skinnyWars behavior for the listed dependencies like

<webModule>
  <groupId>my.groupId</groupId>
  <artifactId>my.artifactId</artifactId>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>SomeThirdParty.jar.groupId</groupId>
      <artifactId>SomeThirdParty.jar</artifactId>
      <version>SomeThirdParty.jar.version</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</webModule>