Generate war file without libs directory in gradle

Question

I have a gradle project and configured war plugin that is successfully generating the war file.

I want my dependencies jar files not to be the part of .war file in directory [/WEB-INF/lib/].

I will manually add all the dependencies in jboss's lib folder.

apply plugin: 'war'

sourceSets  {
 main {
    java {
        srcDir 'src'
    }
 }
}

war.baseName = 'web'

webAppDirName = 'WebContent'

war {
 webXml = file('WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml')
}

dependencies {
 compile fileTree('../ThirdPartyJars')
 compile project(':core')
}

This is generating a .war file that already contains all the dependency.

Is their any way to remove all these dependencies from war file in gradle.

JB Nizet JB Nizet · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-20T10:28:34

This is an awful idea, IMO, but you can add the dependencies to the providedCompile or providedRuntime configuration rather than compile or runtime.

Generate war file without libs directory in gradle

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