Recently I configured my application to use "skinny wars" that was described on codehaus (title: Solving the skinny war problem). Basically I exclude all jars from the war and add it as a war and pom dependency to the ear. Now I ran into a problem with two jars. So to me the logical thing to do was include them in the war file using packagingInclude.
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/lib/*.jar</packagingExcludes>
<packagingIncludes>WEB-INF/lib/A.jar, WEB-INF/lib/B.jar</packagingIncludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Using a regex as showed in de plugin documentation and this answer but it didn't seem to do anything. It just excludes everyting.
In the source code of the plugin I found that it uses the DocumentScanner of org.codehaus.plexus ยป plexus-utils. I didn't quite understand how it works.
I thought this was a no brainer. But what am I doing wrong? Could it be that the inclusion doesn't work when A is also a transitive dependency of C?
Edit: Does plugin version play any role? Now I am using 2.6 but previously version 2.1-alpha-2 was used.