Maven 2.x WAR Plugin

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.1-alpha-2
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: None
• Labels:

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The war plugin copies module dependencies into target/modulename/WEB-INF/lib, but it doesn't remove files that don't belong there.

So if I change POM to remove a dependency or change a version, you still see the old jar in WEB-INF/lib until you do a clean rebuild.

As this often results in a rather painful bug (where you get two different versions of the same library in WEB-INF/lib, which makes the program break in some systems but not others), it'd be highly desirable if the plugin is smart enough to delete files that shouldn't be there.

• Assignee:

  Unassigned

  Reporter:

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi

• Created:

  11/Jan/10 9:07 PM

  Updated:

  12/Jan/10 2:30 AM