Eclipse including multiple jars from apache ivy IDE plugin in web deployment assembly

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I recently updated my project setting to resolve a resource problem between my groovy plugin and ivy plugin.

I use apache ivy IDE plugin 2.2.0 final & eclipse Helios Service Release 1 on a 64bit machine.

Before I did: project -> right click on ivy plugin -> properties -> Advanced:
Enable project specific settings
Build the classpath with:
retrieved artifacts
Retrieve pattern: WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]
Delete old retrieved artifacts [checked]

This works for me except when I also have groovy plugin in my project, the groovy project will hold on to the jars copied to WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/ and I wouldn't be allowed to delete any of the jars in WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/ until I restart eclipse

Now I removed that ivy plugin setting Added my ivy plugin as a deployment assembly The problem I'm running into now is that whenever I publish to tomcat using eclipse, it would copy over TWO jars per some of my ivy entries. One of the jars is always the latest version, then the other jar seems to be a random earlier version of the same jar. However the problem is resolved once I switch back to the old way of copying jars using the ivy plugin.

I cannot figure out if this new problem is a ivy plugin issue or a eclipse deployment assembly issue. Others at work have tried by doing the same thing in the same project and they do not have the TWO jars problem.

Have anyone else run into this problem before and have a solution for it?

Thank you!

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1 Answers

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Are you using Ant with Ivy? Then, you could define an Ant task for copying the Jars:

<copy todir="@{target-dir}">
    <fileset dir="@{source-dir}">
        <include name="*.jar" />
    </fileset>
</copy>

You can specify the fileset even in a more detailed way. Some examples from my Ant build file:

<fileset dir="...">
    <include name="${ivy.module}-${ivy.revision}-jar.jar" />
    <include name="${ivy.module}-test-unit-${ivy.revision}-jar.jar" />
    <include name="lib/*.jar" />
    <include name="lib-tests/*.jar" />
    <exclude name="**/*.java" />
    <exclude name="**/*.class" />
</fileset>